Ng (Arabic letter)

Ng or Naf (Template:Script/Arabic or Template:Script/Arabic) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf (Template:Script/Arabic) with the addition of three dots above the letter. The letter was used in Ottoman Turkish to represent a velar Template:IPAslink and is still used for Template:IPAslink when writing Turkic languages.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

Usage

In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the velar Template:IPAslink. An example is the word (, 'sea'). The letter is used or has been used to write Template:IPAslink in:

• Chagatai
• Kazakh
• Kyrgyz
• Azerbaijani
• Uyghur

It is also used in Moroccan Arabic for Template:IPAslink.

The Xiao'erjing script variant Template:Script/Arabic is used to spell Template:IPAslink in Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) and the Dungan language.

Other characters used to represent

Southeast Asian nga

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

This letter, derived from (Template:Script/Arabic), is used to represent Template:IPAslink in:

• the Jawi script, for
  • Acehnese
  • Banjarese
  • Kerinci
  • Maguindanaon
  • Malay
  • Minangkabau
  • Tausūg
  • Ternate
• the Pegon script, for
  • Javanese
  • Sundanese
• Arabic Afrikaans, for Afrikaans historically, called ()

Wolof ngōn

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

This letter is also derived from . Called (), it is used in the Wolofal alphabet to represent Template:IPAslink in the Wolof language. Two variants of kāf were also used: Template:Script/Arabic as in Turkic, and Template:Script/Arabic below.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

Sindhi ngāf

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

Derived from the Perso-Arabic () and called , is used in Sindhi for Template:IPAslink when written in the Arabic script.

Tamil nga

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

This letter is also derived from , with three dots inside the descender, to represent Template:IPAslink in the Arwi script used for Tamil.

See also

• Kāf
• Ghayn
• Gaf
• Ayin
• Gueh, used in Sindhi and Saraiki