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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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 · Svenska

Ñ (gemenform: ñ) (n med tilde) är en bokstav i flera varianter av det latinska alfabetet. I bland annat de spanska, filipino och bretonska alfabeten har den ljudvärdet [ɲ] (IPA), en palatal nasal. Det är ett muljerat n, ungefär som /nj/ i "spanjor", fast bokstaven J är inte så framtonande. Bokstaven heter på spanska eñe och är den femtonde bokstaven i det spanska alfabetet. Bokstaven förekommer även i krimtatariska alfabetet för ng-ljud när man skriver på tatariska med det latinska alfabetet, i , i det bretonska språket när föregående vokal är nasal, som i till exempel Jañ [djã] eller Brezheñ [brezẽ], och i flera andra ortografier. Bokstaven har även tidigare används i turkiskan (ﯓ).

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