A phonetic symbol (ŋ) representing the velar nasal sound, as in 'sing' or 'ring'.
From Old English and Germanic origins, agma is the traditional name for this sound in linguistics and the International Phonetic Alphabet.
When you pronounce 'sing,' that final 'ng' sound is called agma—it's one of the few speech sounds English-speakers make every day without realizing it's a single unified sound, not two separate ones.
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