Ñ

lettre de l’alphabet latin, composée d’un n et d’un tilde

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The letter Ñ (ñ) is a character in the extended Latin alphabet created by placing a wavy line called a tilde above the letter N, and it originated in medieval Spain as a shorthand way to write certain letter combinations before becoming an official part of the Spanish alphabet in the 1700s. Today it remains an important part of Spanish spelling and is used in words like "niño" (child) and "mañana" (tomorrow).

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Key facts

Grapheme.name: Eñe
Grapheme.letter: Ñ ñ
Grapheme.script: Latin script
Grapheme.type: Alphabet
Grapheme.typedesc: ic
Grapheme.language: Spanish language
Grapheme.phonemes: [] []
Grapheme.unicode: U+00D1, U+00F1
Grapheme.alphanumber: 15
Grapheme.fam1: I10
Grapheme.fam2: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Nun
Grapheme.fam3: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caanite Nun
Grapheme.fam4: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Nun
Grapheme.fam5: class=skin-invert-image|20px
Grapheme.fam6: class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Greek Ny
Grapheme.fam7: Ν ν
Grapheme.fam8: 𐌍
Grapheme.fam9: N

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Wikidata facts

Part of: Spanish alphabet
Has part: tilde
Image: Latin Ñ.svg

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different from: N
Commons gallery: Ñ
Commons category: Ñ
Unicode character: ñ
code: --.--

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Article · Français

Le Ñ, ñ, egne, ou ene tilde (en espagnol la eñe, nom féminin) est une consonne utilisée en aragonais, asturien, basque, breton, espagnol, galicien, guarani, hassanya, karone, portugais tagalog, wamey, wolof, etc. En espagnol, il est utilisé pour représenter un son palatal nasal dont le symbole dans l'alphabet phonétique international est [ɲ] (comme le français ‹ gn ›). Il est aussi utilisé dans le digramme ‹ ñg › de l’alphabet des langues d’Angola.

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