Ng (Arabic letter)

ݣ‎ or ڭ‎ (Ng or Naf) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf (ك، ک‎) with the addition of three dots above the letter. It is used in Arabic as used in Morocco for /ɡ/ (or by ك kāf), but is used to represent a velar /ŋ/ when writing Turkic languages.

In Turkic languages, it represented the velar /ŋ/. An example is the word دݣز (däŋiz, 'sea').

The letter derived from غ ghayn, is used in many languages when using the Arabic script to represent /ŋ/ in:

• Jawi script to write:
  • Acehnese
  • Banjarese
  • Kerinci
  • Maguindanaon
  • Malay
  • Minangkabau
  • Tausūg
  • Ternate
• Pegon script to write:
  • Javanese
  • Sundanese
• Arabic Afrikaans to write Afrikaans historically, called ngīn /ŋiːn/

The Arabic letter ڠ‎ was also used historically in the Arebica script for Serbo-Croatian by Čičak-Al-Zubi to spell /d͡ʑ/.

Also derived from غ ghayn. Using the Wolofal variant of the Ajami script to write the Wolof language in Arabic script to represent /ŋ/ with two other variants ڭ‎ as used in Turkic languages, shown above, and ݤ‎‎.

Also derived from غ ghayn with three dots inside the descender, rarely found in current fonts, to represent /ŋ/. The script is called Arwi when used for Tamil language.

• Kāf
• Ghayn
• Gaf#Gaf with three dots
• ڳ (Gueh), used in Sindhi and Saraiki