Ñ

Ñ or ñ ( ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called ) on top of an upper- or lower-case . The origin dates back to medieval Spanish, when the Latin digraph began to be abbreviated using a single with a roughly wavy line above it, and it eventually became part of the Spanish alphabet in the eighteenth century, when it was first formally defined.

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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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Article · 日本語

Ñ, ñは、Nにティルデを付した文字である。スペイン語アルファベットの15番目（N と O の間）の文字として使われるほか、ガリシア語でも用いられる。硬口蓋鼻音 [ɲ] を表し、フランス語・イタリア語の gn、カタルーニャ語の nyに相当する。日本語では「にゃ」「に」「にゅ」「にぇ」「にょ」の子音がこれに近い。

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