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{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /ŋ/ in various languages}}
{{Not to be confused with|text=the musical symbol [[Hauptstimme|Hauptstimme 𝆦]]}}{{Unreferenced|date=September 2009}}
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'''En-ge''' (Ҥ&nbsp;ҥ; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">''Ҥ&nbsp;ҥ''</span>) is a letter of the [[Cyrillic script]] used only in non-[[Slavic languages]]. The shape of the letter originated as a [[Typographic ligature|ligature]] of the Cyrillic letters [[En (Cyrillic)|en]] (Н н) and [[Ge (Cyrillic)|ge]] (Г г), but en-ge is used as a separate letter in alphabets.
En-ge is used in the alphabets of the [[Altai languages]], [[Meadow Mari language|Meadow Mari]], [[Tundra Yukaghir]] (except in some Saint Petersburg publications, where it is substituted with [[En with hook]]) and [[Sakha language|Yakut]]. In all of these languages, it represents the [[voiced velar nasal]] {{IPA|/ŋ/}}, like the pronunciation of &lang;ng&rang; in "si'''ng'''".
En-ge was also used in two 19th-century alphabets for [[Aleut language|Aleut]].
In certain [[Old Slavonic language|Old Slavonic]] manuscripts, a character of the same or similar shape could be used to represent palatalized {{IPA|/nʲ/}}, a role similar to modern Serbian/Macedonian letter [[nje]] (Њ њ). These manuscripts also may contain similarly built characters for [[Soft De|palatalized Д]], З{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}, [[Soft El|Л]] and Р{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} (''d, z, l,'' and ''r'').
Ҥ is romanized using Ṅ, Ng, or even [[Ŋ]].
==Computing codes==
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|04A4|name1=Cyrillic Capital Ligature En Ghe
|04A5|name2=Cyrillic Small Ligature En Ghe
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==Related letters and other similar characters==
* Ң ң : [[Ң|Cyrillic letter en with descender]]
* Ӈ ӈ : [[Ӈ|Cyrillic letter en with hook]]
* Ŋ ŋ : [[Ŋ|Latin letter eng]]
* Ꞑ ꞑ : [[Ꞑ|Latin letter n with descender]]
*𝆦: [[Hauptstimme]]
==References==
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[[Category:Cyrillic ligatures]]
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