Ng (Arabic letter)

Usage

In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the velar . An example is the word ota (دڭز, 'sea'). The letter is used or has been used to write in:

• Chagatai
• Kazakh
• Kyrgyz
• Azerbaijani
• Uyghur

It is also used in Moroccan Arabic for .

The Xiao'erjing script variant is used to spell in Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) and the Dungan language.

Other characters used to represent {{IPA|/ŋ/}}

Southeast Asian ''nga''

This letter, derived from ar (), is used to represent in:

• the Jawi script,Daftar Kata Bahasa Melayu Rumi-Sebutan-Jawi, Dewan Bahasa Pustaka, 5th printing, 2006. for
  • Acehnese
  • Banjarese
  • Kerinci
  • Maguindanaon
  • Malay
  • Minangkabau
  • Tausūg
  • Ternate
• the Pegon script, for
  • Javanese
  • Sundanese
• Arabic Afrikaans, for Afrikaans historically, called ngīn ()

Wolof ''ngōn''

This letter is also derived from ar. Called wo (), it is used in the Wolofal alphabet to represent in the Wolof language. Two variants of kāf were also used: as in Turkic, and below.

Sindhi ''ngāf''

Derived from the Perso-Arabic fa (گ) and called sd , is used in Sindhi for when written in the Arabic script.

Tamil ''nga''

This letter is also derived from ar, with three dots inside the descender, to represent in the Arwi script used for Tamil.

References

References

1. (12 August 2010). "''Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages''".
2. Currah, Galien (26 August 2015) ''ORTHOGRAPHE WOLOFAL''. [http://currah.download/pages/ajamisenegal/orthographe_wolofal_harmattan_26-aout-2015_a4.pdf Link] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230512170510/http://currah.download/pages/ajamisenegal/orthographe_wolofal_harmattan_26-aout-2015_a4.pdf Archive])