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| Voiced || [[Image:Kirumb-small-letter-angma.png|24px]] (ŋ) || viŋe [vìŋə]
| Voiced || [[Image:Kirumb-small-letter-angma.png|24px]] (ŋ) || viŋe [vìŋə]
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'''[[Ithkuil]]'''
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| Voiced || ņ || [http://home.inreach.com/sl2120/Sound_Files/cons-5a.mp3 gaņiut /ɡaŋiut/]
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| Unvoiced || hņ
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| Voiced geminated || ņņ || [http://home.inreach.com/sl2120/Sound_Files/cons-35b.mp3 sa’weņņün /saʔweŋŋʉn/]
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Revision as of 21:32, 16 October 2004

ŋ
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA: ŋ
X-SAMPA: N
Kirshenbaum: N
Place of Articulation: Velar
Manner of Articulation: Nasal Stop
Phonological features:

[+consonantal]
[+sonorant]
[+contin-acous]
[+nasal]
[+DORSAL]
  [+high]

The velar nasal is a fairly common sound cross-linguistically. It is often an allophone of n before a velar sound.

Velar nasals in natlangs

English

Voiced ng sing /sɪŋ/
n(k,g) sank /sænk/ [sæŋk]

Ancient Greek

Voiced γ(γ,κ,ν,μ) ἄγγελος [áŋɡelos]

Latin

Voiced g(n) magnus /magnus/ [maŋnʊs]

Velar nasals in conlangs

Atlantic

Voiced Kirumb-small-letter-angma.png (ŋ) viŋe [vìŋə]

Ithkuil

Voiced ņ gaņiut /ɡaŋiut/
Unvoiced
Voiced geminated ņņ sa’weņņün /saʔweŋŋʉn/