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So wild that "ng" (ɲ) is not only easily pronounced, an entirely unique sound, and can be pronounced by itself with no prefix or suffix, yet it's not considered a consonant digraph.
Like they say "ck" is a digraph, but it sounds exactly like "k!" duk bak clok sok lok puk
#linguistics #english
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