Distinction from other tooth-shaped letters by position in syllable sequence.[citation needed]
Dotted before a vowel (attached or separated); undotted before a consonant (syllable-final) or a whitespace.[2]: 20 [3]: 546 [13]: 6 [10] Final dotted n is also found in modern Mongolian words.[14]: 37 A dotted pre-consonantal variant can be used to clarify the spelling of n in words of foreign origin.[6]: 47–49