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Eng or engma (capital: Ŋ, lowercase: ŋ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a velar nasal (as in English ''singing'') in the written form of some languages and in the International Phonetic Alphabet. ==History== The First Grammatical Treatise, a 12th-century work on the phonology of the Old Icelandic language, uses a single grapheme for the eng sound, shaped like a g with a stroke . Alexander Gill the Elder uses an uppercase G with a hooked tail and a lowercase n with the hooked tail of a script g for the same sound in ''Logonomia Anglica'' in 1619.〔David Crystal (2003). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language〕 William Holder uses the letter in ''Elements of speech: An essay of inquiry into the natural production of letters'' published in 1669, but it was not printed as intended; he indicates in his errata that “there was intended a character for Ng, viz., n with a tail like that of g, which must be understood where the Printer has imitated it by n or y”.〔Robert W. Albright (1958). (''The International Phonetic Alphabet'' ): Its Backgrounds and Development, Indiana University. p. 11〕 It was later used in Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet, with its current phonetic value. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eng (letter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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