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The velar nasal is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N. FEATURES Features of the velar nasal:
The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter ''n'' with a leftward tail protruding from the bottom of the right stem of the letter. Compare n and . Both the symbol and the sound are commonly called as "eng" or "engma" and sometimes in reference to Greek , "agma". The symbol should not be confused with , the symbol for the Retroflex Nasal , which has a ''rightward''-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem or with , the symbol for the Palatal Nasal , which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the ''left'' stem. VARIETIES OF {LINK WITHOUT TITLE} IN ENGLISH The velar occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letters 'ng' in ''sing'' or the letter 'n' in ''bank''. IN OTHER LANGUAGES The {Link without Title} sound is a fairly common sound cross-linguistically. It is unusual in that in many languages it is only permitted in postvocalic positions (after vowels), like in English, Mandarin Chinese , and Korean . However, in other languages it is permitted at the beginnings of syllables, like in the name of the language Ngaju Dayak ; Nenets even inserts it in word-initial position. In Cantonese Chinese , not only is it permitted at the beginning of syllables, but it can be a standalone syllable itself. For instance, the surname Ng (sometimes transliterated as ''Eng'') is a common Cantonese Surname and is pronounced (呉). In Ancient Greek it was written with a gamma γ, and it was probably an Allophone of /n/, as in Italian , Spanish and Modern Greek . In modern Germanic Languages , it is a separate phoneme—originally, it was only an allophone in Germanic, too. Nevertheless, there is a Runic letter that represents In his book ''Ancient Scripts And Phonological Knowledge'', Gary D. Miller argues that the Runic [ŋ -letter is composed of two gammas - however, two gammas never represented in Greek, but [ŋɡ . In Latin, [ŋ] was represented by ''n'' before ''c'', ''g''; and by ''g'' before ''n''; thus, ''agnus'' was pronounced /aŋnus/. In Northern Sami , {Link without Title} is represented by the letter ŋ . In Slavic Languages it is an Allophone of /n/ before ''k'' and ''g'', written ''g'' in ''ng'' is always pronounced. It can be also pronounced [ng , but it is not very usual. Examples: banka (or [banka ), bingo (or [bingo ). SEE ALSO |
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