Do any Japanese words start with n besides ンジャメナ?


Do any Japanese words start with n besides ンジャメナ or words related to it?
N'Djamena is the capital of Chad.




It depends on what you'd count as a "Japanese word". Almost certainly nothing
that is natively Japanese will start with ん. However, there are a few words in
other languages that would have it. For example, "ng" is a common starting
sound in names in a few languages (including Vietnamese and some Chinese
dialects). I know of someone whose surname is "Ng", and it caused a lot of
trouble in getting them registered in some Japanese systems since there was an
automatic validation preventing them from writing it as ング.




It depends on what you'd count as a "Japanese word". Almost certainly nothing
that is natively Japanese will start with ん. However, there are a few words in
other languages that would have it. For example, "ng" is a common starting
sound in names in a few languages (including Vietnamese and some Chinese
dialects). I know of someone whose surname is "Ng", and it caused a lot of
trouble in getting them registered in some Japanese systems since there was an
automatic validation preventing them from writing it as ング.

