The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ŋ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N.



In English
In most European languages, the velar nasal is restricted to the syllable coda, and usually occurs only as an allophone of [n] before the velar plosives [k] and [g]. Such is the case in most dialects of Spanish, where the phoneme /n/ preceding a velar plosive is realized with the velar nasal allophone; however, in certain dialects of the Tierras Bajas, the phoneme /n/ can be realized with the velar nasal allophone even when it does not precede a velar plosive (however, it must still appear in the coda). Some Asian languages, notably Cantonese and Vietnamese, allow the sound word-initially, as do most African and Australian Aboriginal languages.
The velar nasal does not occur in many of the indigenous languages of the Americas, nor in a large number of European and Middle Eastern languages. Whilst almost all languages have [m] and [n], only about half have a velar nasal. As with the voiced velar plosive, the relative rarity of the velar nasal is undoubtedly due to the fact that the small oral cavity used to produce velar consonants makes it more difficult for voicing to be sustained. It also makes it much more difficult to allow air to escape through the nose as is required for a nasal consonant.

Atkan Aleut: chaang [tʃɑːŋ], "five"
Dali Bai: [ŋv˩˧], "fish"
Chukchi: ңыроқ [ŋəɹoq], "two"
Cantonese Chinese: 呉 [ŋ̩], "surname Ng"
Dinka: ŋa [ŋa], "who"
Dutch: angst [aŋst], "fear"
Fijian: gone [ˈŋone], "child"
Finnish: langan [lɑŋːɑn], "of the thread"
French: parking [paʀkiŋ], "parking lot" (though the sound is not native to the French language)
Galician: unha ['uŋa̺], "one" (feminine)
German: lang [laŋ], "long"
Greek: άγχος [ˈaŋ.xo̞s̺̠], "stress, anxiety"
Hindi: रङ्ग [rəŋ], "color"
Hungarian: ing [iŋg], "shirt"
Indonesian: bangun [ba.ŋun], "to build/to wake up"
Italian: anche [ˈaŋke], "also"
Itelmen: қниң [qniŋ], "one"
Japanese (standard): 南極 (nankyoku) [naŋkʲokɯ], "the South Pole"; (many eastern dialects): 鍵 (kagi) [kaŋi], "key"
Ket: аяң [ajaŋ], "to damn"
Korean: 방 (bang) [paŋ], "room"
Mandarin Chinese: 北京 [pei˨˩˦ tɕɪŋ˥˥], "Beijing"
Nivkh: ңамг [ŋamg], "seven"
Norwegian: gang [gɑŋ], "hallway"
Polish: bank [baŋk], "bank"
Provençal: vin [viŋ], "wine"
Sanskrit: अङ्ग [əŋgə], "limb"
Seri: comcáac [koŋˈkaak], "Seri people"
Spanish: domingo [d̪o̞ˈmiŋgo], "Sunday"
Swahili: ng'ombe [ŋɔmbɛ], "cow"
Swedish: bank [baŋkʰ]