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Typewritten text in Portuguese; note the acute accent, tilde, and circumflex accent.. Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
the tilde (Señor, João), in Spanish indicating palatalised n, and Portuguese indicating nasal a and o (although in Spanish and most source languages, the tilde is not considered a diacritic over the letter n but rather as an integral part of the distinct letter ñ; in Portuguese the sound is represented by "nh")
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]
A tilde (~) placed under Gamel represent a [dʒ] sound, transliterated as j; The letter Waw with a dot below it represents [u], transliterated as ū or u, The letter Waw with a dot above it represents [o], transliterated as ō or o, The letter Yōḏ with a dot beneath it represents [i], transliterated as ī or i,
The tilde was originally one of a variety of marks written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation (a "mark of contraction"). [3] Thus, the commonly used words Anno Domini were frequently abbreviated to A o Dñi, with an elevated terminal with a contraction mark placed over the "n". Such a mark could denote the ...
A cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish cedilla, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters (as a diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modified.
The grave accent marks the height or openness of the vowels e and o, indicating that they are pronounced open: è [ɛ] (as opposed to é [e]); ò [ɔ] (as opposed to ó [o]), in several Romance languages: Catalan uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and o). French orthography uses the accent on three letters (a, e, and u).
Latin Capital Letter O with tilde and acute U+1E4D ṍ Latin Small Letter O with tilde and acute U+1E4E Ṏ Latin Capital Letter O with tilde and diaeresis U+1E4F ṏ Latin Small Letter O with tilde and diaeresis U+1E50 Ṑ Latin Capital Letter O with macron and grave U+1E51 ṑ Latin Small Letter O with macron and grave U+1E52 Ṓ