1. a speech sound represented by the symbol ŋ, as in the final sound of ‘sing’
Usage: phonetics

Examples

• The agma is a nasal consonant found in many languages.
• Students often struggle to identify the agma sound in words like ‘ring’ and ‘bank’.
• The phonetic symbol ŋ represents the agma in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• English speakers produce an agma when saying words ending in ‘-ng’.
• The agma occurs in the middle of words like ‘finger’ and ‘anger’.