N with long right leg
Obsolete IPA character
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N with long right leg (majuscule: Ƞ, minuscule: ƞ) is an obsolete letter of the Latin alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode as U+0220 Ƞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG and U+019E ƞ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG. It is nearly homoglyphic with the lowercase Greek letter Eta.
⟨Ƞ⟩ was used to represent the nasalization of vowels in the Lakota language[1] in that language's 1982 orthography.[2] Later Lakota orthography replaced the letter with ⟨ŋ⟩,[3] a more common letter that represents a velar nasal sound in many languages.
In the IPA, the letter ⟨ƞ⟩ was used from 1951 to 1976 to transcribe a moraic nasal that is homorganic with a following consonant, but was retired after falling into disuse. The wildcard letter capital /N/ is often used for something similar today.