Ẽ, ẽ is a

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in which the

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indicates a

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. It is the 5th letter in the Guaraní alphabet and widely used in other Amerindian languages in Brazil, such as Kaingang. It is also found in

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and perhaps in related

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. In IPA, /ẽ/ represents a nasal "e" sound. In

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, it was used to represent an E with a ''ngã'' tone.

Emilian-Romagnol

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, ẽ is used to represent ��ː e.g. ''galẽna'' aˈlẽːna"hen".

Ancient documents

In some ancient Italian documents, a tilde is used to indicate a missing m after a vowel. So, ẽ is used to abbreviate em, as in tẽpo instead of tempo

Computer encoding

References

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