Ṅ

N with dot above
Ṅ ṅ
Usage
Writing system	𐌍 N Ṅ ṅ
Time period	~1000 to present
Sisters	Ñ, N̈, Ŋ, Ꞑ
Transliteration equivalents	Ҥ, ङ, ঙ, ਙ, ઙ, ଙ, ங, ఙ, ಙ, ങ, ඞ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-Right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ṅ (lowercase ṅ) is a letter of the Latin and Sanskrit alphabet, formed by N with the addition of a dot above.^[1]

The letter is used in

(IPA: ŋ), corresponding to the pronunciation of the English digraph "ng" in final position.

Furthermore, the letter is used in some transliteration systems of South Asian languages. The letter is used in the

.

Usage in various languages

Emilian

Ṅ is used in Emilian to represent [ŋ], e.g. faréṅna [faˈreŋːna] "flour".

Romagnol

In

the use of letter Ṅ is limited to linguistics to represent [ŋ].

Balinese

In Balinese, "ṅ" is used to represent [ŋ].

Computer display

Character information

Preview	Ṅ		ṅ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE		LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	7748	U+1E44	7749	U+1E45
UTF-8	225 185 132	E1 B9 84	225 185 133	E1 B9 85
Numeric character reference	Ṅ	Ṅ	ṅ	ṅ

Unicode contains the Ṅ with the code points U+1E44 (uppercase) and U+1E45 (lowercase).

In TeX one can type the Ṅ with the commands \.N or \.n.

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