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A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish").
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 with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, [2] Taa, Aromanian, and Vietnamese. In the past, it was also used in Greenlandic.
The spoken Polish names of the letters are given in the table under Letters above. The names of the letters are not normally written out in the way shown above, except as part of certain lexicalized abbreviations, such as Pekao (or PeKaO), the name of a bank, which represents the spoken form of the abbreviation P.K.O. (for Polska Kasa Opieki).
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Computer programmers use the tilde in various ways and sometimes call the symbol (as opposed to the diacritic) a squiggle, squiggly, swiggle, or twiddle. According to the Jargon File , other synonyms sometimes used in programming include not , approx , wiggle , enyay (after eñe ) and (humorously) sqiggle / ˈ s k ɪ ɡ əl / .
Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent 0359 in WGL4: U+02C7 ˇ 711 Caron: 0360 U+02C8 ˈ 712 Modifier Letter Vertical Line · U+02C9 ˉ 713 Modifier Letter Macron 0361 in WGL4: U+02CA ˊ 714 Modifier Letter Acute Accent · U+02CB ˋ 715 Modifier Letter Grave Accent U+02CC ˌ 716 Modifier Letter Low Vertical Line U+02CD ˍ 717 Modifier Letter Low ...
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.