The voiceless velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ŋ̊⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced velar nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness. (For reasons of legibility, the ring is usually placed above the letter, rather than regular ⟨ŋ̥⟩). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N_0
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Voiceless velar nasal | |
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ŋ̊ | |
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Features of the voiceless velar nasal:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Alutiiq | eqeshngarluni | [əqəsŋ̊aχluni] | 'sneeze once' | See Alutiiq language. | |
Burmese | ငှါး/nga: | [ŋ̊á] | 'borrow' | ||
Central Alaskan Yup'ik | calisteńguciquq | [tʃaˈlistəˈŋ̊utʃɪquq] | 'he will be a worker' | ||
Faroese | onkur | [ˈɔŋ̊kʰʊɹ] | 'anybody' | Allophone of /n/ before an aspirated velar. See Faroese phonology | |
Icelandic | banka | [ˈpäu̯ŋ̊kä] | 'to knock' | See Icelandic phonology | |
Pa Na | [ma˧˩.ŋ̊ŋ̍˧˩˧] | 'leech' | |||
Washo | dewŊétiʔ | [dewˈŋ̊etiʔ] | 'hillside sloping down' | ||
Welsh | fy nghot | [və ŋ̊ɔt] | 'my coat' | Occurs as the nasal mutation of /k/. See Welsh phonology | |
Xumi | Lower | [ŋ̊ɑ˦mõ˦] | 'camel' | Occurs mostly in loanwords from Tibetan. |
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