Voiced alveolar nasal

Alveolar nasal
Alveolar nasal
n
IPA number	116
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	n
Unicode (hex)	U+006E
X-SAMPA	n
Kirshenbaum	n
Sound
	view; talk; edit;

The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonant. Nearly all languages contain this sound. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨n⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨n⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "n" in near and number.

Features

The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. This means that this sound is produced by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
The phonation is voiced. This means that the vocal cords vibrate while the sound is being pronounced.
The place of articulation (where the sound is produced) is alveolar. This means that this sound is produced with the tip of the tongue (apical) or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge (laminal).
It is a nasal consonant. This means that air is allowed to escape through the nose, either exclusively (nasal stops) or in addition to through the mouth.

Examples

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
Adyghe		нэфнэ/nėfnė	[nafna]	'light'
Arabic	Standard	نور/nūr	[nuːr]	'light'
Assyrian		ܢܘܪܐ nōra	[noːɾaː]	'mirror'
Basque		ni	[ni]	'I'
Bengali		নাক/naak/nāk	[naːk]	'nose'
Catalan^[1]		neu	[ˈneʊ̯]	'snow'
Chinese	Mandarin	難/nán	[nan˧˥]	'difficult'
Czech		na	[na]	'on'
Dutch^[2]		nacht	[nɑxt]	'night'
English		nice	[naɪs]	'nice'
Finnish		annan	[ˈɑnːɑn]	'I give'
Georgian^[3]		კანი/k'ani	[ˈkʼɑni]	'skin'
Greek		νάμα/náma	[ˈnama]	'communion wine
Gujarati		નહી/nahi	[nəhi]	'no'
Hawaiian^[4]		naka	[naka]	'to shake'
Hebrew		נבון/navon	[navon]	'wise'
Italian^[5]		nano	[ˈnäːno]	'dwarf'
Irish		binn	[bʲiːnʲ]	'peak'
Japanese^[6]		反対/hantai	[hantai]	'opposite'
Khmer		នគរ nôkôr	[nɔkɔː]	'kingdom'
Korean		나라/nara	[nɐɾɐ]	'Country'
Kurdish	Northern	giyanewer	[ˈgʲɪjä:ˈnɛwɛˈɾ]	'animal'
	Central	گیانلەبەر/gîyânlabar	[ˈgʲiːäːnˈlæbæˈɾ]
	Southern	گیانلەبەر/gîyânlabar	[ˈgʲiːäːnˈlabaˈɾ]
Kyrgyz^[7]		банан/banan	[baˈnan]	'banana'
Malay		nasi	[näsi]	'cooked rice'
Malayalam^[8]		കന്നി/kanni	[kənni]	'virgin'
Maltese		lenbuba	[lenbuˈba]	'truncheon'
Mapudungun^[9]		müna	[mɘ̝ˈnɐ̝]	'enough'
Ngwe	Mmockngie dialect	[nøɣə̀]		'sun'
Nepali		नक्कल/nakkal	[nʌkːʌl]	'imitation'
Odia		ନାକ/nāka	[näkɔ]	'nose'
Persian		نون/nun	[nun]	'bread'
Pirahã		gíxai	[níˈʔàì̯]	'you'
Polish^[10]		poncz	[ˈpɔn̥t͡ʂ]	'punch'
Punjabi		ਨੱਕ/nakk	[nəkː]	'nose'
Slovak		na	[nä]	'on'
Slovene^[11]		novice	[nɔˈʋìːt̪͡s̪ɛ]	'news'
Spanish^[12]		nada	[ˈnäð̞ä]	'nothing'
Swahili		ndizi	[n̩dizi]	'banana'
Tagalog		nipis	[nipis]	'thin'
Thai		นอน/non	[nɔːn]	'sleep'
Turkish		neden	[ne̞d̪æn]	'reason'
Tamil		மனசு/manasu	[mʌnʌsɯ]	'mind', 'heart'
Vietnamese^[13]		bạn đi	[ɓanˀ˧˨ʔ ɗi]	'you're going'
Welsh		nain	[nain]	'grandmother'
Western Apache		non	[nòn] (help·info)	'cache'
West Frisian		nekke	[ˈnɛkə]	'neck'
Yi		ꆅ/na	[na˧ ]	'hurt'
Zapotec	Tilquiapan^[14]	nanɨɨ	[nanɨˀɨ]	'lady'

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Voiced alveolar nasal

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