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ɲ

palatal nasal — ñ in Spanish año, gn in French agneau.

nasalpalatalvoiced

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Synthesised in your browser from this sound's own recipe — formants for vowels, filtered noise for fricatives, a burst for plosives. A robot mouth, not a recording: what you hear is the physics the symbol describes.

In combination

Sounds change colour depending on their neighbours — coarticulation is why isolated drilling only gets you so far.

ɲa
ɲi
ɲu
aɲ
aɲa
iɲi

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Frenchgn montagne mɔ̃taɲ
mountain
Spanishñ año ˈaɲo
year

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