Ng (Arabic letter)

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

Usage
In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the velar. An example is the word däŋiz (دݣز, 'sea'). The letter is used or has been used to write in:
 * Chagatai
 * Kazakh
 * Kyrgyz
 * Azerbaijani
 * Uyghur

It is also used in Moroccan Arabic for.

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

Southeast Asian nga
This letter, derived from ghayn, is used to represent 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 ngīn

Wolof ngōn
This letter is also derived from ghayn. Called, it is used in the Wolofal alphabet to represent  in the Wolof language. Two variants of kāf were also used: as in Turkic, and  below.

Sindhi ngāf
Derived from the Perso-Arabic gāf (گ) and called ngāf, is used in Sindhi for when written in the Arabic script.

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