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En with hook
Cyrillic letter

En with hook (Ӈ ӈ; italics: Ӈ ӈ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a hook to the right leg.

En with hook commonly represents the voiced velar nasal /ŋ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ng⟩ in "sing", in Uralic languages.

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Usage

En with hook is used in the alphabets of a number of languages of Siberia, including all the Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Samoyedic languages:

Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages

Uralic languages

Several Uralic languages use the en with hook.2

These include:

Samoyedic languages

Other Uralic languages

Tungusic languages

Eskimo–Aleut languages

Other languages

Computing codes

En with Hook has different unicodes for capital and small letters.4

Character information
PreviewӇӈ
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTEREN WITH HOOKCYRILLIC SMALL LETTEREN WITH HOOK
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode1223U+04C71224U+04C8
UTF-8211 135D3 87211 136D3 88
Numeric character referenceӇӇӈӈ

See also

References

  1. Erich Kasten, Tjeerd de Graaf, ed. (2013). Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge: Learning Tools and Community Initiatives for Preserving Endangered Languages and Local Cultural Heritage. Bod Third Party Titles. p. 204. ISBN 9783942883122. Retrieved February 5, 2023. 9783942883122 ↩

  2. Salminen, Tapani; Anderson, Deborah (2012). "Request for 2 New Cyrillic Characters for the Khanty and Nenets Languages". UC Berkeley: Department of Linguistics. Retrieved February 5, 2024. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sv783hn ↩

  3. Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl (July 6, 2011). "Proposal to encode a missing Cyrillic letter pair for the Orok language" (PDF). Working Group Document. Retrieved February 5, 2024. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4137.pdf ↩

  4. Allen, Julie D. (2007). The Unicode Standard 5.0 -. Unicode Consortium. p. 610. ISBN 978-0-321-48091-0. Retrieved February 5, 2023. 978-0-321-48091-0 ↩