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The letter eng is one additional letter of the Latin alphabet used in certain alphabets derived from (ininternational alphabet of Niamey used for the many ones languages of Africa, in, it , etc.).

Linguistics

It seems to be invented by Alexander Gill the Elder, teacher English who it A creates in 1619 for didactic reasons. It was included later in in order to represent the same one velar nasal occlusive consonant voiced : [? ], as in English sing [ S?? ] "to sing". Its equivalent in is N.

From the API one, the letter was adapted later for the writing of languages which use this sound, like and of many languages aboriginals, primarily in and in .

Double layout of the capital

Form in N and in N

Its capital is generally written as the tiny one in a larger format but there are alternatives in certain orthographies with one N with downward pole. Thus, the form N is preferred for the orthographies of African languages to Latin writing while it is the form N who prevails for . tiny is always ?.

Data-processing representation

The letter eng is represented in coding by U+014A for the capital and U+014B for the tiny one. Unicode not sticking normally to of the characters, one does not distinguish the layout from the capitals.

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