| Ng | |
| Script: | Arabic script |
| Type: | Abjad |
| Language: | Ottoman Turkish |
| Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/ |
| Unicode: | U+0763, U+06AD |
| Fam1: | |
| Direction: | Right-to-left |
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 pronounced as /link/ and is still used for pronounced as /link/ when writing Turkic languages.
In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the velar pronounced as /link/. An example is the word (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: دݣز, 'sea'). The letter is used or has been used to write pronounced as /link/ in:
It is also used in Moroccan Arabic for pronounced as /link/.
The Xiao'erjing script variant is used to spell pronounced as /link/ in Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) and the Dungan language.
This letter, derived from, is used to represent pronounced as /link/ in:
This letter is also derived from . Called (pronounced as /ŋɔːn/), it is used in the Wolofal alphabet to represent pronounced as /link/ in the Wolof language.[2] [3] Two variants of kāf were also used: as in Turkic, and below.
Derived from the Perso-Arabic (Persian: [[گ]]) and called in Sindhi pronounced as /ŋäːf/, is used in Sindhi for pronounced as /link/ when written in the Arabic script.
This letter is also derived from, with three dots inside the descender, to represent pronounced as /link/ in the Arwi script used for Tamil.