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, is a letter in which the tilde indicates a nasal vowel or nasal consonant.

Usage[edit]

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ẽ/ represents a nasalized [e] sound. It is the 5th letter in the Guaraní alphabet and widely used in other Amerindian languages in Brazil, such as Kaingang, representing this nasalized [ẽ] sound. It is also used for the Bantu language Umbundu.

In Romagnol, ẽ has been proposed to represent [ẽː], e.g. galẽna [gaˈlẽːna] ("hen").

In Vietnamese, it is used to represent an E with a ngã tone.

Commonly found in medieval and Renaissance-era texts, both in Latin and vernacular languages such as Old Spanish and Middle French, standing for en and em before a consonant or at the end of a word. For example, Old Spanish tiẽpo for tiempo, riẽdas for riendas, fazẽ for fazen.

In older Italian documents, a tilde is used to indicate a missing m after a vowel. So, is used to abbreviate em, as in tẽpo instead of tempo[1]

Computer encoding[edit]

Character information
Preview
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH TILDE LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH TILDE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 7868 U+1EBC 7869 U+1EBD
UTF-8 225 186 188 E1 BA BC 225 186 189 E1 BA BD
Numeric character reference Ẽ Ẽ ẽ ẽ

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mugnos, Filadelfo. Dizionario Genealogico delle Famiglie Italiane (in Italian). Vol. I. pp. 394–396.