of ng with eng, it can be in words such as singer and hanged and when it is in final position or in words such as finger and angle. In British English, n is pronounced eng in the prefixes en- and in- when they are followed by c, g and q, as in encroachment, engagement, enquiry, incursion, ingredient, inquiry and others. In other English dialects, the n is pronounced instead. In many British dialects, the ng in strength and length is simply pronounced , with g a silent letter, and the ng is otherwise pronounced in those words. Usage Technical transcription Americanist phonetic notation, where it may also represent a uvular nasal. Sometimes for the transcription of Australian Aboriginal languages International Phonetic Alphabet Uralic Phonetic Alphabet including Teuthonista phonetic transcription system uses Rheinische Dokumenta, a phonetic alphabet for many West Central German dialects, Low Rhenish, and few related languages. Vernacular orthographies Languages marked † no longer use eng, but formerly did. African languages Bari Bemba Dagbani Dinka Efik Ewe Frafra Fula Ganda Manding languages Nuer Shona language† Songhay languages Wolof Zarma American languages Inupiat Lakota O'odham Austroasiatic languages Tonga Australian Aboriginal languages Bandjalang Yolngu Languages of China Zhuang† (replaced by the digraph ng in 1986) Hanyu Pinyin † used ŋ as a short hand form of ng. Sami languages Inari Sami Lule Sami Northern Sami Ume Sami Skolt Sami Kildin Sami (during Latinisation in the 1930s) Turkic languages during Latinisation in the 1930s used Ꞑ ꞑ, sometimes considered a variant of eng. Kazakh language† (2019 revision of the Latin alphabet; replaced with Ñ in the April 2021 proposal) Mapuche language (Wirizüŋun script) Kalam languages Kalam language Computer encoding Eng is encoded in Unicode as U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG and U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG, part of the Latin Extended-A range. In ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4) it's located at BD (uppercase) and BF (lowercase). In African languages such as Bemba, ng' (with an apostrophe) is widely used as a substitute in media where eng is hard to reproduce. See also Ng (digraph) Nh (digraph) Eta (Greek letter) g Similar Latin letters: Ƞ ƞ Ɲ ɲ N n M m Ꞑ ꞑ Ŋ ŋ Ɱ ɱ Ꜧ ꜧ Similar Cyrillic letters: Ӈ ӈ Ң ң Ҥ ҥ References External links Practical Orthography of African Languages FileFormat.info – Fonts that support LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG (U+014A) and LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG (U+014B) Latin