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See also: ~ , ˜ , ◌͠◌, ◌ۤ, ◌̰, and ◌̴

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COMBINING TILDE
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Translingual

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Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. (IPA) Nasalization.
    The French term "bon vivant" is pronounced .
  2. (UPA) Strong nasalization. Cf. ◌̰ for weak nasalization.
  3. (Lithuanian dialectology) Marks a stressed syllable with "rising tone".

Usage notes

(IPA): Distinguish two stacked nasal tildes (strong nasalization, ) from a double tilde: ◌͌.

Estonian

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called tilde (tilde) in Estonian, and found on Õ/õ.

Greenlandic

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. (in the old orthography) Used over a vowel to indicate gemination of both that vowel and the following consonant.

Latin

Etymology

Developed in cursive writing from n atop another letter.

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
    cũcum
    ī̃fluenteīnfluente
    ñnōn
    quīcũquequīcumque or quīcunque

Descendants

  • Old English: ◌̃
  • Old French: ◌̃
  • German: ◌̃
  • Portuguese: ◌̃
  • Spanish: ◌̃

Middle English

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.

Descendants

Middle French

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
    ãan
    en

Middle Vietnamese

The 17th-century form of the Portuguese tilde, used in Middle Vietnamese.
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Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu sóng or dấu lưỡi câu in Vietnamese, and apex in Latin. Used to indicate the allophone of a syllable-coda /ŋ/, which is now spelled ng.

Usage notes

In Unicode, the perispomene , called dấu ngã in Vietnamese and used as a tone mark, was misidentified as the tilde, conflicting with proper encoding of the dấu sóng. The two had different graphic forms when the Vietnamese Latin alphabet was created in the 17th century.

The tilde was most commonly used on the letters o and u, which triggered the allophone of a syllable-coda /ŋ/. However, it was occasionally used as an abbreviation of ng on the vowel letters ơ and ư as well, where it had the pronunciation .

The tilde (dấu sóng) and the perispomene (dấu ngã) could occur on a syllable together. When the vowel of the syllable was written with two letters, the perispomene tone mark would be placed on the first and the nasal tilde on the second. When they occurred on a single letter, the tilde was placed immediately above the letter and the perispomene above the tilde.

References

  1. ^ Minh Nguyen and Kirk Miller, 2025, Unicode request for Vietnamese apex

Old French

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
    ãan
    cointemtcointement
    en

Descendants

Portuguese

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called til (tilde) in Portuguese, and found on Ã/ã and Õ/õ.

Usage notes

References

  • Cláudio Moreno (19 May 2009) “til não é acento”, in sualíngua (in Portuguese), archived from the original on 26 September 2013

Spanish

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called virgulilla (tilde) in Spanish, and found on Ñ/ñ.

Yoruba

Diacritical mark

◌̃

  1. (obsolete) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called àmì fàágùn (lengthend mark). Formerly used to indicate any sequence of tones on extended vowels

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