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Ẽ
Ẽ, ẽ is a letter in which the tilde indicates a nasal vowel or nasal consonant. Usage In the International Phonetic Alphabet, represents a Nasalization, 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 ː e.g. ''galẽna'' aˈlẽːna("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 Old Spanish (, , ; ), also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tilde
The tilde (, also ) is a grapheme or with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish , which in turn came from the Latin , meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation. History Use by medieval scribes The tilde was originally one of a variety of marks written over an omitted letter or several letters as a scribal abbreviation (a "mark of contraction"). Thus, the commonly used words ''Anno Domini'' were frequently abbreviated to ''Ao Dñi'', with an elevated terminal with a contraction mark placed over the "n". Such a mark could denote the omission of one letter or several letters. This saved on the expense of the scribe's labor and the cost of vellum and ink. Medieval European charters written in Latin are largely made up of such abbreviated words with contraction marks and other abbreviations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Guaraní Alphabet
The Guarani alphabet (''achegety'') is used to write the Guarani language, spoken mostly in Paraguay and nearby countries. It consists of 33 letters. Orthography Their respective names are: :''a'', ''ã'', ''che'', ''e'', ''ẽ'', ''ge'', ''g̃e'', ''he'', ''i'', ''ĩ'', ''je'', ''ke'', ''le'', ''me'', ''mbe'', ''ne'', ''nde'', ''nge'', ''nte'', ''ñe'', ''o'', ''õ'', ''pe'', ''re'', ''rre'', ''se'', ''te'', ''u'', ''ũ'', ''ve'', ''y'', ''ỹ'', ''puso''. Description The six letters ⟨a, e, i, o, u, and y⟩ denote vowel sounds, the same as in Spanish, except that ⟨y⟩ is a high central vowel, . The vowel variants with a tilde are nasalized. (Older books used diaereses or circumflexes to mark nasalization.) The apostrophe called "'" (lit., ''sound cut off'') represents a glottal stop ; older books wrote it with . All the other letters (including ⟨ ñ⟩, ⟨g̃⟩, and the digraphs) are consonants, pronounced for the most part as in Spanish. The Latin letters b, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
