Voiced velar nasal

The **voiced velar nasal** is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is <samp>⟨N⟩</samp>. The English language has this sound. It is the sound represented by _ng_ in _walking_ and _angst_.

## Examples

|Language|Word|IPA|Meaning|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Albanian|||'because'|||||
|Aleut|||'five'|||||
|Arabic|Hejazi|/mingal||'brazier'||||
|Armenian|Eastern|/ënker||'friend'||||
|Assamese|/ŗông||'color'|||||
|Bambara|||'guitar'|||||
|Bashkir|__||'one thousand'|||||
|Basque|||'leg'|||||
|Bengali|/rông||'color'|||||
|Bulgarian|/tănko||'thin'|||||
|Catalan|||'blood'|||||
|Chamorro|||'duck'|||||
|Chinese|Cantonese|/ngong4||'raise'||||
|Eastern Min|疑/ngi||'suspect'|||||
|Gan|牙/nga||'tooth'|||||
|Hakka|我/ngai||'I'|||||
|Mandarin|/beijing||'Beijing'|||||
|Northern Min|外/ngui||'outside'|||||
|Southern Min|黃/ng||'yellow'|||||
|Sichuanese|我/ngo||'I'|||||
|Wu|五/ng||'five'|||||
|Xiang|熬/ngau||'to boil'|||||
|Yuci dialect of Jin|我/ngie||'I'|||||
|Chukchi|**ң**ыроқ/ṇyroq||'three'|||||
|Czech|||'tank'|||||
|Dinka|||'who'|||||
|Danish|||'song'|||||
|Dutch|||'fear'|||||
|English||'sing'||||||
|Faroese|||'meadow'|||||
|Fijian|||'child'|||||
|Filipino|||'now'|||||
|Finnish|||'cloth'|||||
|French|Standard|||'camping'||||
|Southern France|||'bread'|||||
|Galician|||'one' (f.)|||||
|German|||'long'|||||
|Greek|/||'Stress'|||||
|Hebrew|Standard|/anglit||'English language'||||
|Sephardi|עין/nayin||'Ayin'|||||
|Hiligaynon|||'crazy/mentally unstable'|||||
|rowspan="3"|Hindustani|Hindi|//ra**ṅ**g|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|'color'|
|Urdu|/ra**ṅ**g|||||||
|Fiji Hindustani|Rang|||||||
|Hungarian|||'shirt'|||||
|Icelandic|||'tunnel'|||||
|Inuktitut|_ᐴ**ᙳ**ᐆᖅ_ / _puu**nng**uuq_||'dog'|||||
|Inuvialuktun|_qam**ng**uiyuaq_||'snores'|||||
|Irish|||'their voice'|||||
|Italian|||'also'|||||
|Itelmen|||'one'|||||
|Japanese|Standard|南極 /||'the South Pole'||||
|Eastern dialects|/||'key'|||||
|Javanese|ꦱꦺꦔꦏ꧀/Sengak||stink|||||
|Kagayanen|||'older sister'|||||
|Kazakh|||'thousand'|||||
|Kyrgyz|/miñ|||||||
|Ket|/ajaņ||'to damn'|||||
|Khasi|||'honey'|||||
|Khmer|/||'easy'|||||
|Korean|/||'window frost'|||||
|rowspan="3"|Kurdish|Northern||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|'war'|
|Central|rowspan="2"|/ceng||||||
|Southern||||||||
|Luxembourgish|||'nobody'|||||
|Macedonian|/angliski||'English'|||||
|Luganda|||'hornbill'|||||
|rowspan="3"|Malay|Malaysian and Indonesian|||'wake up'|||
|Kelantan-Pattani|_sini_|[si.niŋ]|'here'|||||
|Terengganu|_ayam_|[a.jaŋ]|'chicken'|||||
|Malayalam|മാ**ങ്ങ**/mān̄n̄a||'mango'|||||
|Māori|||'the'|||||
|Marathi|/ranga||'colour'|||||
|Mari|е**ҥ**/eng||'human'|||||
|Mongolian|||'sky'|||||
|Nepali|/nang||'nail'|||||
|Nganasan|**ӈ**а**ӈ**/ngang||'mouth'|||||
|Nivkh|**ң**амг/ngamg||'seven'|||||
|North Frisian|Mooring|||'stove'||||
|Norwegian|||'hallway'|||||
|Odia|/ebang||'and'|||||
|rowspan="2"|Panjabi|Gurmukhi|ਰੰਗ/rang|rowspan="2"||rowspan="3"|'color'|
|Shahmukhi|rowspan="2"|/rang||||||
|Persian||||||||
|Pipil|||'later'|||||
|Polish|||'bank'|||||
|Portuguese|||'mango'|||||
|Occitan|Provençal|||'wine'||||
|Rapanui|||'bay'|||||
|Romanian|_Țara Moților_ Transylvanian|||'dog'||||
|Sāmoan|||'language'|||||
|Serbo-Croatian|/||'pause'|||||
|Seri|||'Seri people'|||||
|Shona|||'witch doctor'|||||
|Slovene|||'tank'|||||
|Spanish|All dialects|||'Sunday'||||
|Galician Spanish, Andalusian, Canarian, and most Latin American dialects|_alquitrán_|[]|'tar'|||||
|Swahili|**ng**'ombe||'cow'|||||
|Swedish|||'nothing'|||||
|Tamil|இங்கே/in̄gē||'here'|||||
|Thai|/ngaan||'work'|||||
|Tongan|||'man'|||||
|Tuamotuan|||'sky'|||||
|Tundra Nenets|/ŋəwa||'head'|||||
|Turkmen|||'thousand'|||||
|Tyap|||'child'|||||
|Uzbek|||'thousand'|||||
|Venetian|||'hand'|||||
|Vietnamese|||'ivory'|||||
|Welsh|||'between'|||||
|West Frisian|||'king'|||||
|Xhosa|||'hadada ibis'|||||
|Yi|/||'I'|||||
|Yup'ik|||'animal'|||||
|Zapotec|Tilquiapan|_ya**n**_||'neck'||||

## Infobox (ipa)

- **ipa-number**: 119
- **decimal**: 331
- **ipa-image**: Xsampa-N.png
- **xsampa**: N
- **kirshenbaum**: N