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  2. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    It is a letter in the Spanish alphabet that is used for many words—for example, the Spanish word año "year" ( anno in Old Spanish) derived from Latin: annus. Other languages used the macron over an n or m to indicate simple doubling.

  3. Tilde - Wikipedia

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    In this language, ñ is considered a separate letter called eñe (IPA:), rather than a letter-diacritic combination; it is placed in Spanish dictionaries between the letters n and o . In Spanish, the word tilde actually refers to diacritics in general, e.g. the acute accent in José, [23] while the diacritic in ñ is called "virgulilla" (IPA ...

  4. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    As foreshadowed above, in nasal ñ the tilde (squiggle) is not considered a diacritic sign at all, but a composite part of a distinct glyph, with its own chapter in the dictionary: a glyph that denotes the 15th letter of the Spanish alphabet. Swedish uses the acute to show non-standard stress, for example in kafé (café) and resumé (résumé).

  5. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... Mac has a wonderful built-in shortcut system for accents on individual letters, or Maccents, if ...

  6. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  7. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish language is written using the Spanish alphabet, which is the ISO Latin script with one additional letter, eñe ñ , for a total of 27 letters. [1] Although the letters k and w are part of the alphabet, they appear only in loanwords such as karate, kilo, waterpolo and wolframio (tungsten or wolfram) and in sensational spellings: okupa, bakalao.

  8. Ń - Wikipedia

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    Latin N with acute. Ń (minuscule: ń) is a letter formed by putting an acute accent over the letter N.In the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet; the alphabets of Apache, Navajo, Polish, Karakalpak, Kashubian, Wymysorys and the Sorbian languages; and the romanization of Khmer and Macedonian, it represents /ɲ/, [1] which is the same as Czech and Slovak ň, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian nj, Spanish and ...

  9. Talk:Ñ - Wikipedia

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    "Historically, ñ represented two N's, written as an N with a smaller N, the tilde ~, over it. For example, the Spanish word año (year) is derived from Latin ANNVS." What? As it says: the tilde originally was a small lowercase n written on top of the other n. So año was originally written anno, which is clearly from the Latin annus.