N with palatal hook, followed by eng, a palatal nasal and a retroflex n for comparison, in the Doulos SIL font. Eng or engma ( Majuscule: Ŋ, minuscule: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a Velar nasal The palatal nasal is a type of Consonant, used in some spoken Languages The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this Doulos SIL is a serif Typeface developed by SIL International, very similar to Times or Times New Roman.

The palatal hook ( ̡) is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent palatalized consonants. See also Horn (diacritic Ɓ ɓ Ƈ ƈ Ɗ ɗ Ɠ ɠ The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic Palatalization or palatalisation (ˌpælətəlɨˈzeɪʃən generally refers to two phenomena As a process or the result of a process It is a small, leftwards-facing hook joined to the bottom-right side of a letter, and is distinguished from various other hooks indicating retroflexion, etc. In Phonetics, retroflex consonants are Consonant sounds used in some Languages (They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants

The IPA recommended that esh (ʃ) and ezh (ʒ) not use the palatal hook, but instead get special curled symbols: ʆ and ʓ. Esh ( Majuscule: Ʃ, minuscule: ʃ; Unicode U+01A9 U+0283 is a character used in conjunction with the Latin alphabet Ezh ( Ʒ ʒ) is a letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA representing the Voiced postalveolar fricative consonant However, versions with the hook may have been used by some authors.

The palatal hook was withdrawn in 1989, in favour of a superscript j following the consonant (i. This article is about the terms 'subscript' and 'superscript' as used in typography J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added e. , ƫ becomes tʲ).

Computer encoding

Unicode includes both a combining character for the palatal hook, as well as several precomposed characters, including superscript letters with palatal hooks. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's In Digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters A precomposed character (alternatively decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can be decomposed into an equivalent string of several other characters This article is about the terms 'subscript' and 'superscript' as used in typography

While LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH PALATAL HOOK has been in Unicode since 1991, the rest weren't added until 2005. As such, font support for the latter characters is much less than for the former. In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises

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