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Ng (lowercase: ng) is a digraph of the Latin alphabet.
It is considered a single letter in many Austronesian languages (Maori, Filipino, Tongan, Kiribatian, Tuvaluan), Welsh language, to represents velar nasal (IPA: ); and some African languages (Lingala, Bambara) to represent prenasalized ( or ).
The Finnish language uses the digraph 'ng' to denote the phonemically long velar nasal in contrast to 'nk' consonant gradation, a type of lenition. Weakening /k/ produces an archiphonemic "velar fricative", which, as a velar fricative does not exist in Finnish, is assimilated to the preceding *," target="_blank" >producing [. (No /g/ is involved at any point, despite the spelling 'ng'.) The digraph 'ng' is not an independent letter, but it is an exception to the phonetic principle, one of the few in standard Finnish.
Unicode
This digram is not encoded as a single character in Unicode.
See also
Uncommon Latin letters | Latin digraphs | Māori | Tagalog | Filipino language | Digraphs
Ng (lizherenn) | Ng (digramme) | Ng | Ng
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