Ng (Arabic letter)
Ng or Naf (ݣ or ڭ) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf (ك ک) with the addition of three dots above the letter. The letter was used in Ottoman Turkish to represent a velar /ŋ/ and is still used for /ŋ/ when writing Turkic languages.
| Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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ݣ | ـݣ | ـݣـ | ݣـ |
| Position in word | Isolated | Final | Medial | Initial |
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ڭ | ـڭ | ـڭـ | ڭـ |
| Ng | |||
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| ڭ ݣ | |||
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| Writing system | Arabic script | ||
| Type | Abjad | ||
| Language of origin | Ottoman Turkish | ||
| Phonetic usage | [ŋ] | ||
| Unicode codepoint | U+0763, U+06AD | ||
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| Writing direction | Right-to-left | ||
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