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En-ge (Ҥ ҥ; italics: Ҥ ҥ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script used only in non-Slavic languages. The shape of the letter originated as a ligature of the Cyrillic letters en (Н н) and ge (Г г), but en-ge is used as a separate letter in alphabets.
En-ge is used in the alphabets of the Altai languages, Meadow Mari, Tundra Yukaghir (except in some Saint Petersburg publications, where it is substituted with En with hook) and Yakut. In all of these languages, it represents the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing".
En-ge was also used in two 19th-century alphabets for Aleut.
In certain Old Slavonic manuscripts, a character of the same or similar shape could be used to represent palatalized /nʲ/, a role similar to modern Serbian/Macedonian letter nje (Њ њ). These manuscripts also may contain similarly built characters for palatalized Д, З, Л and Р (d, z, l, and r).
Ҥ is romanized using Ṅ, Ng, or even Ŋ.
Computing codes
Preview | Ҥ | ҥ | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LIGATURE EN GHE | CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE EN GHE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1188 | U+04A4 | 1189 | U+04A5 |
UTF-8 | 210 164 | D2 A4 | 210 165 | D2 A5 |
Numeric character reference | Ҥ |
Ҥ |
ҥ |
ҥ |
Related letters and other similar characters
- Ң ң : Cyrillic letter en with descender
- Ӈ ӈ : Cyrillic letter en with hook
- Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter eng
- Ꞑ ꞑ : Latin letter n with descender
- 𝆦: Hauptstimme
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