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A small capital N, for a nasal made at the uvula.
Also known as: ɴ, Small capital N
In the International Phonetic Alphabet a small capital N denotes a uvular nasal, made with the back of the tongue against the uvula and air through the nose. It occurs in Japanese at the end of a syllable.
Denotes a uvular nasal, articulated with the tongue back against the uvula and nasal airflow.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Occurs in Japanese as a syllable-final nasal and in Inuit languages, and is rare as a contrastive phoneme elsewhere.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A capital letter N reduced to the height of a lower-case letter, two vertical strokes joined by a diagonal.