Also known as A with tilde
A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Kashubian, Silesian, Guaraní, Aromanian, Taa, and Vietnamese. In the past, it was also used in Greenlandic.
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- A with tilde
- Grapheme.letter
- Ã ã
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter A with tilde.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 200px
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.language
- PortugueseKashubianSilesianGuaraníTaaAromanianVietnameseGreenlandic (obsolete)HindiTedaga
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+00C3, U+00E3
- Grapheme.usageperiod
- 16th century to present
- Grapheme.direction
- Left-to-right
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- Usage
- Encoding
- References
A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Kashubian, Silesian, Guaraní, Aromanian, Taa, and Vietnamese. In the past, it was also used in Greenlandic.
== Usage == In Portuguese, it represents a nasal near-open central vowel ([ɐ̃]), though it varies from near-open to mid-central vowel according to dialect. It also appears as a part of the diphthongs ãe, pronounced as /ɐ̃j̃/, and ão, pronounced as /ɐ̃w̃/.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ô article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.