Of course, NG sounds like ngee. But we don't have to compare the pronunciations of NG with the full word Angular. NG is more of an abbreviation. So even if we drop the first A and try to pronounce Ngular it'll still sound like Angular only. So they took the starting fragment NG of the word Ngular to create an abbreviation which is used a prefix More @Wikipedia
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