spanish symbols

Question

ñ what is this symbol called?

Answer 1

In Spanish, "ñ" is a distinct letter, pronounced as "ny" in "canyon", but if your asking for the name of the "˜" symbol, it is called called a tilde

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Interesting point - Before printing presses it was written as one n above another n. When the printing press came along, and letters had to fit into a certain line height, it was shrunk down to the tilde over an n.

This one's like a trivia! :) - kireiprincess19, Sep 5, 2012

Answer 4

ñ is a lowercase letter of the Spanish Alphabet pronounced as /?e?e/ "énye"). It is formed by the letter n with a diacritical tilde. [Please see the link for more info.1

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Answer 5

"ñ" is, as Maxwell said, a distinct letter in Spanish. I would like to add, in case you were wondering, that its "name" (how you refer to it in speech, like the letter "a" is read "ey" and the letter b is read "bee") is "enye"