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Meaning of engma | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɛŋ.mə

Definitions

  1. The velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.
  2. The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA.

Examples

“The velar nasal (engma) is transcribed as /ng/.”
“We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma."”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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