N with long right leg



N with long right leg (majuscule: Ƞ, minuscule: ƞ) is an obsolete letter of the Latin alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode as and.

$\langleȠ\rangle$ was used to represent the nasalization of vowels in the Lakota language in that language's 1982 orthography. Later Lakota orthography replaced the letter with $\langleŋ\rangle$, a more common letter that represents a velar nasal sound in many languages.

In the IPA, the letter $\langleƞ\rangle$ was used from 1951 to 1976 to transcribe a moraic nasal homorganic with a following consonant, but was removed because it did not indicate a specific phonetic pronunciation and the IPA consists of only glyphs with defined phonetic values. The wildcard letter capital N is often used for something similar today.

$\langleȠ\rangle$ is not to be confused with $\langleŋ\rangle$ or with $\langleɳ\rangle$, the latter used in the IPA for a retroflex nasal. The lowercase form is graphically similar to the lowercase Greek letter eta, $\langleη\rangle$.