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

Usage

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ẽ/ represents a nasalized 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 sound. It is also used for the Bantu language Umbundu.

In Romagnol, ẽ has been proposed to represent , e.g. galẽna ("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

Computer encoding

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 &#7868; &#x1EBC; &#7869; &#x1EBD;

References

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