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Ng (lowercase: ng) is a digraph of the Latin alphabet. A digraph, bigraph, or digram is a pair of characters used to write one Phoneme (distinct sound or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond In English and several other European and English-derived orthographies, it generally represents the velar nasal, IPA ŋ. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The velar nasal is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic

It is considered a single letter in many Austronesian languages (Māori, Tagalog, Tongan, Kiribatian, Tuvaluan, Indonesian) and the Welsh language, to represent velar nasal (IPA: ŋ); and in some African languages (Lingala, Bambara, Wolof) to represent prenasalized ɡ (/ŋ͡g/ or /ⁿg/). Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. Tongan ( lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language spoken in Tonga. Gilbertese or Kiribati (or sometimes Kiribatese, a mixture of both is a Language from the Austronesian family, part of the Tuvaluan is a Nuclear Polynesian language of the Ellicean group spoken in Tuvalu. Indonesian or Bahasa Indonesia, based on the Riau version of Malay language, was declared the official language with the declaration of Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic The velar nasal is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic There are an estimated 2000 Languages spoken in Africa. About a hundred of these are widely used for inter-ethnic communication Bambara, also known as Bamanankan in the language itself is a Language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people (including second language users Prenasalized stops or consonants are phonetic sequences of nasal plus plosive that behave phonologically like single consonants The voiced velar plosive is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that

The Finnish language uses the digraph 'ng' to denote the phonemically long velar nasal [ŋː] in contrast to 'nk' [ŋk], which is its "strong" form under consonant gradation, a type of lenition. Finnish ( or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% As of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside The velar nasal is a type of Consonantal sound used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents Consonant gradation is a type of Consonant mutation, in which consonants alternate between various "grades" Lenition is a kind of Consonant mutation that appears in many Languages Along with assimilation, it is one of the primary sources of historical change Weakening /k/ produces an archiphonemic "velar fricative", which, as a velar fricative does not exist in Finnish, is assimilated to the preceding [ŋ], producing [ŋː]. The phoneME project is Sun Microsystems reference implementation of Java virtual machine and associated libraries of Java ME with source licensed under the GNU (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 phonemic principle, one of the few in standard Finnish. A phonemic orthography is a Writing system where the written Graphemes correspond to Phonemes the spoken sounds of the language

In Irish ng is used word-initially as the eclipsis of g and is pronounced [ŋ], e. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. Irish, like all modern Celtic languages, is characterized by its initial Consonant mutations These mutations affect the initial consonant of a word under specific g. ár ngalar [ɑːɾ ˈŋɑɫəɾ] "our illness" (cf. [ˈgɑɫəɾ]. In this function it is capitalized nG, e. g. i nGaillimh "in Galway".

In Tagalog and other Philippine languages, 'ng' originally represented the sequence [ŋg] during the Spanish era. In Philippines there are over 170 languages almost all of them belong to the Austronesian language family. The velar nasal, [ŋ] was represented in a variety of forms, namely: ñg, ng̃, gñ (as in Sagñay), ng͠, g̃, and simply a tilde over the vowel it followed. Sagñay is a 4th class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. The tilde (~ (/ˈtɪldə/ is a Grapheme with several uses The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus During the standardization of Tagalog during the early part of the 20th century, 'ng' came to represent [ŋ] while [ŋg] was written 'ngg'. Furthermore when the genitive marker ng appears on its own it is pronounced [naŋ]; this was done to differentiate it from the adverbial marker nang.

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