Editing Ogonek (section)

===Nasalization===
The use of the ogonek to indicate [[nasal vowel|nasality]] is common in the transcription of the [[indigenous languages of the Americas]]. This usage originated in the orthographies created by [[Christian missionaries]] to transcribe these languages. Later, the practice was continued by Americanist anthropologists and linguists who still, to the present day, follow this convention in phonetic transcription (see [[Americanist phonetic notation]]).

The ogonek is also used  to indicate a nasalized vowel in Polish, academic transliteration of Proto-Germanic, [[Old Church Slavonic language|Old Church Slavonic]], Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua, [[Tlicho language|Tłįchǫ Yatiì]], [[Slavey language|Slavey]], [[Chipewyan language|Dëne Sųłiné]] and Elfdalian<!-- in Tutchone too ? -->. In Polish, ''ę'' is nasalized ''e''; however, ''ą'' is nasalized ''o'', not ''a'', because of a vowel shift: ''ą'', originally a long nasal ''a'', turned into a short nasal ''o'' when the distinction in vowel quantity disappeared.