En with descender (Ң ң; italics: ''Ң ң'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...

. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg. It is used in several mostly Turkic languages to represent the voiced velar nasal , like the pronunciation of in "sing". In some cases, it also represents

allophone In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plos ...

s of , most commonly the voiced uvular nasal . The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as or .

Usage

The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:

Usage

Computing codes

See also