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Wikipedia April 20, 2026 at 04:24 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language#LLC_alphabet

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[ŋ] ⟨ň⟩
Correction

This symbol is wrong for Lakota. Standard Lakota orthography writes /ŋ/ with ⟨ŋ⟩, not ⟨ň⟩.

Full reasoning

The consonant chart gives the Lakota spelling of /ŋ/ as ⟨ň⟩, but authoritative Lakota orthography references use ⟨ŋ⟩ instead.

Unicode’s Lakota character guidance lists the non-English Lakota consonants as č ǧ ȟ ŋ š ž, and its standard digraphs include aŋ, iŋ, uŋ. That is the current standard character inventory for Lakota, and it does not include ň for this sound.

Unicode’s code chart also notes that Lakota historically used ƞ/Ƞ to indicate nasalization, but that usage was superseded by ŋ/Ŋ. So even the older special Lakota letter was ƞ, not ň.

Because the article’s own orthography section later uses ŋ (for example in aŋ, iŋ, uŋ), the ⟨ň⟩ entry in this consonant table appears to be a mistaken character substitution rather than a valid Lakota spelling.

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  • Lakota | Unicode CLDR

    Please use the following forms of the non-A-Z letters when entering data for Lakota... Consonants, lowercase č ǧ ȟ ŋ š ž ... Standard digraphs ... aŋ čh čʼ iŋ kȟ kʼ pȟ pʼ tȟ tʼ uŋ

  • The Unicode Standard, Latin Extended-B chart

    019E ƞ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG ... Lakota (indicates nasalization of vowel), superseded by 014B ŋ ... 0220 Ƞ ... Lakota (nasalization), superseded by 014A Ŋ

Model: OPENAI_GPT_5 Prompt: v1.16.0