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Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Computer programmers use the tilde in various ways and sometimes call the symbol (as opposed to the diacritic) a squiggle, squiggly, swiggle, or twiddle. According to the Jargon File , other synonyms sometimes used in programming include not , approx , wiggle , enyay (after eñe ) and (humorously) sqiggle / ˈ s k ɪ ɡ əl / .
Old Spanish used ç to represent /t͡s/. Early Modern Spanish used the letter ç to represent either /θ/ or /s/ before /a/, /o/, and /u/ in much the same way as Modern Spanish uses the letter z. Middle Castilian Spanish pronounced ç as /θ/. Andalusian, Canarian, and Latin American Spanish pronounced ç as /s/.
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N with caron Latin small and capital letter n with caron, and the word "vášeň" (passion) The grapheme Ň (minuscule: ň) is a letter in the Czech, Slovak and Turkmen alphabets. It is formed from Latin N with the addition of a caron (háček in Czech and mäkčeň in Slovak) and follows plain N in the alphabet. Ň and ň are at Unicode ...
and maybe some odd dots and lines above, below, or inside characters – Hebrew; פֿ; dots/lines below letters appearing only with א,י, and ו – Yiddish; no dots or lines around the letters, and more than a few words end with א (i.e., they have it at the leftmost position) – Aramaic; Ladino; 漢字文化圈 – Some East Asian Languages
A with line below and acute: Kiowa, Seneca Â̱ â̱: A with line below and circumflex: Kiowa Ã̱ ã̱: A with line below and tilde: Nambikwara, Ticuna: Ā̱ ā̱: A with line below and macron: Kiowa Ā̱̀ ā̱̀: A with line below, macron, and grave: Kiowa Ā̱́ ā̱́: A with line below, macron, and acute: Kiowa Ā̱̂ ā̱̂: A with line ...
Southern European Spanish (Andalusian Spanish, Murcian Spanish, etc.) and several lowland dialects in Latin America (such as those from the Caribbean, Panama, and the Atlantic coast of Colombia) exhibit more extreme forms of simplification of coda consonants: word-final dropping of /s/ (e.g. compás [komˈpa] 'musical beat' or 'compass')