Ñ

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Ñ (minuscule: ñ) (Spanish: eñe [ˈeɲe] ) is a letter of the extended 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⟩. The origin dates back to medieval Spanish, when the Latin digraph ⟨nn⟩ began to be abbreviated using a single ⟨n⟩ 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. Since then, it has been adopted by other languages, such as Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Chavacano, several Philippine languages (especially Filipino and the Bisayan group), Chamorro, Galician, Guarani, Quechua, Mapudungun, Mandinka, Papiamento, and Tetun. It also appears in the Latin transliteration of Tocharian and many Indian languages, where it represents [ɲ] or [nʲ] (similar to the ⟨ny⟩ in canyon). Additionally, it was adopted in Crimean Tatar, Kazakh...

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