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  2. Pronunciation of English ng - Wikipedia

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    In English, the digraph ng often represents the velar nasal, as in long / l ɒ ŋ / and nothing / ˈ n ʌ θ ɪ ŋ /.In other cases, it represents a sequence of the velar nasal followed by the voiced velar stop, as in longer / ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɡ ər /, which had been the original pronunciation of the digraph up until Early Modern English when the / ɡ / sound was lost in most words, giving / ŋ / a ...

  3. Voiced retroflex nasal - Wikipedia

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    The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɳ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n`. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of an en (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant).

  4. N (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Another meaning is rather specific, to 'pronounce "n" as a syllabic consonant', [10] in other words, to make the sounds represented by the kana ん and ン. It is not clear whether the calligraphic gesture involved in writing the kana or some phonetic gesture involved in producing the sounds gives the names hatsuon and haneru-on .

  5. Voiced velar nasal - Wikipedia

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    The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα âgma 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.It is the sound of ng in English sing as well as n before velar consonants as in English and ink.

  6. Nasal click - Wikipedia

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    Nasal clicks are click consonants pronounced with nasal airflow.All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ) have nasal variants, and these are attested in four or five phonations: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, murmured (breathy voiced), and—in the analysis of Miller (2011)—glottalized.

  7. Nasal consonant - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese syllabary kana ん, typically romanized as n and occasionally m, can manifest as one of several different nasal consonants depending on what consonant follows it; this allophone, colloquially written in IPA as /N/, is known as the moraic nasal, per the language's moraic structure.

  8. 20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus ... - AOL

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    Pronunciation: anti-dis-es-tab-lish-ment-ar-i-an-is-m Meaning: A political position that originated in 19th-century Britain opposing proposals for the disestablishment of the Church. Letters : 28

  9. Voiced palatal nasal - Wikipedia

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    The voiced palatal nasal is a type of consonant used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɲ , [1] a lowercase letter n with a leftward-pointing tail protruding from the bottom of the left stem of the letter.