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 si ng as well as n before velar consonants as in E n glish and i n k . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ ŋ ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N . The IPA symbol ⟨ ŋ ⟩ is similar to ⟨ ɳ ⟩, the symbol for the retroflex nasal , which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem, and to ⟨ ɲ ⟩, the symbol for the palatal nasal , which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem.
4-477: Agma is a name for the velar nasal speech sound and the letter ⟨ ŋ ⟩ that stands for it. AGMA may refer to: Velar nasal While almost all languages have /m/ and /n/ as phonemes , /ŋ/ is rarer. Half of the 469 languages surveyed in Anderson (2008) had a velar nasal phoneme; as a further curiosity, many of them limit its occurrence to the syllable coda . The velar nasal does not occur in many of
8-416: Is the word income ; its underlying representation , /ˈɪnˌkʌm/ , can be realized as either [ˈɪnˌkʌm] or [ˈɪŋˌkʌm] . An example of a language that lacks a phonemic or allophonic velar nasal is Russian , in which /n/ is pronounced as laminal denti-alveolar [ n̪ ] even before velar consonants. Some languages have the pre-velar nasal , which is articulated slightly more front compared with
12-753: The languages of the Americas , the Middle East , or the Caucasus , but it is extremely common among Australian Aboriginal languages , languages of Sub-Saharan Africa , East Asian and Southeast Asian languages , and Polynesian languages . In many languages that do not have the velar nasal as a phoneme, such as the Romance languages , it occurs as an allophone of /n/ before velar consonants. This kind of assimilation can even be found in languages with phonemic voiced velar nasals, such as English . An example of this phenomenon
16-433: The place of articulation of the prototypical velar nasal, though not as front as the prototypical palatal nasal - see that article for more information. Conversely, some languages have the post-velar nasal , which is articulated slightly behind the place of articulation of a prototypical velar nasal, though not as back as the prototypical uvular nasal . [REDACTED] Features of the voiced velar nasal: Symbols to
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