Ng (Arabic letter)

Turkic ng

NG
ڭ/ݣ
Usage
Writing system	Arabic script
Type	Abjad
Language of origin	Turkic languages
Sound values	[ŋ]
In Unicode	U+0763 ݣ ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE U+06AD ڭ ARABIC LETTER NG
History
Development	ڭ/ݣ
Other
Writing direction	Right-to-left

ݣ‎ or ڭ‎ (Ng or Naf) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf (ك، ک‎) with the addition of three dots above the letter. It is used in Arabic as used in Morocco for /ɡ/ (or by ك kāf), but is used to represent a velar /ŋ/ when writing Turkic languages.

In Turkic dialects, it represented the velar /ŋ/. An example is the word دݣز (däŋiz, “sea”), compare deniz in modern Turkish, and deñiz in Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek.

It is also used in Sindhi and Saraiki, as ڳ.

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݣ‎	ـݣ‎	ـݣـ‎	ݣـ‎

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ڭ‎	ـڭ‎	ـڭـ‎	ڭـ‎

Turkic languages

The letter is used or has been used to write:

• Chagatai
• Kazakh
• Kirghiz
• Azerbaijani
• Ottoman Turkish
• Uyghur

Xiao'erjing

The Xiao'erjing script variant ݣ‎ is used to spell /ŋ/ in Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) or the Dungan language.

Southeast Asian ng

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ڠ‎	ـڠ‎	ـڠـ‎	ڠـ‎

The letter derived from غ ghayn, is used in many languages when using the Arabic script to represent /ŋ/ in:

• Jawi script to write:
  • Acehnese
  • Banjarese
  • Kerinci
  • Maguindanaon
  • Malay
  • Minangkabau
  • Tausūg
  • Ternate
• Pegon script to write:
  • Javanese
  • Sundanese
• Arabic Afrikaans to write Afrikaans (historically)

The Arabic letter ڠ‎ was also used historically in the Arebica script for Serbo-Croatian to spell /d͡ʑ/.

Wolof ng

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݝ‎	ـݝ‎	ـݝـ‎	ݝـ‎

Also derived from غ ghayn. Using the Ajami script (Wolofal alphabet) to write Wolof language in Arabic script to represent /ŋ/ with two other variants ڭ‎ as used in Turkic languages, shown above, and ݤ‎‎.

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݤ‎	ـݤ‎	ـݤـ‎	ݤـ‎

Tamil ng

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ࢳ‎	ـࢳ‎	ـࢳـ‎	ࢳـ‎

Also derived from غ ghayn with three dots inside the descender, rarely found in current fonts, to represent /ŋ/. The script is called Arwi when used for Tamil language.

See also

• Kāf
• Gaf#Gaf with three dots