◌̃

See also: ~ [U+007E TILDE], ˜ [U+02DC SMALL TILDE], ◌͠◌, ◌ۤ, ◌̰, and ◌̴

◌̃ U+0303, ̃ COMBINING TILDE ← ◌̂ [U+0302] Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̄ → [U+0304]

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̃

1. (IPA) Nasalization.

   The French term "bon vivant" is pronounced [bɔ̃vivɑ̃].

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.

   cũ — cum

   ī̃fluente — īnfluente

   ñ — nōn

   quīcũque — quīcumque or quīcunque

Descendants

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

Middle English

Diacritical mark

◌̃

1. Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffe’s Bible, MS Egerton 617.)‎^[1], published c. 1390–1397, 8:7, page 20r, column 2:

     […] ne floodis ſchul not prowẽ it doũ.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: ◌̃

Middle French

Diacritical mark

◌̃

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

   ã — an

   ẽ — en

Old French

Diacritical mark

◌̃

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

   ã — an

   cointemẽt — cointement

   ẽ — en

Descendants

• Middle French: ◌̃

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

• In the letter a, forms ã with the sound /ɐ̃/ followed by a semivowel or word-finally, as in avelã and canção, or in words derived from those, as in maçãzeira.
• In the letter o, forms õ with the sound /õ/ followed by a semivowel, as in canções and põem.
• Additionally, the same diacritical mark has had other uses in the past:
  • In the letter u, forms ũ with the sound /ũ/ followed by a vowel, as in hũa.
  • Abbreviation of m or n in the syllable coda, as in cõtãto (for contanto) and cõ (for com).
  • In the letter q, forms q̃ as an abbreviation of que and derivatives, as in q̃ for que, porq̃ for porque and paraq̃ for para que.
• The tilde can appear in nonstressed or stressed vowels alike:
  • A tilde can occur in an unstressed syllable in the same word as the acute or circumflex accent, as in sótão, órgão and bênção.
  • Multiple tildes can occur in augmentatives, as in aviãozão and leãozão.
  • In words with the suffixes -zinho (forms diminutives) and -mente (forms adverbs from adjectives, like the English suffix -ly), the stressed syllable changes and thus normally accents would be dropped, as in pé, pezinho; pálido, palidamente. That does not happen with the tilde: irmã, irmãzinha; alemã, alemãmente.

References

• Cláudio Moreno (2009 May 19) “til não é acento”, in sualíngua‎^[2] (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.

Vietnamese

Diacritical mark

◌̃

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu ngã (“tumbling mark”) in Vietnamese, and found on Ã/ã, Ẵ/ẵ, Ẫ/ẫ, Ẽ/ẽ, Ễ/ễ, Ĩ/ĩ, Õ/õ, Ỗ/ỗ, Ỡ/ỡ, Ũ/ũ, Ữ/ữ and Ỹ/ỹ. Used to indicate mid-rising, glottalized tone.

Usage notes

In some dialects of Vietnamese, particularly Saigonese, the mid-rising, glottalized tone is conflated with the mid falling-rising, harsh tone represented by ̉. Therefore, speakers of Saigonese often use ̉ in words that are spelled with a tilde in standard written Vietnamese.

In Vietnamese handwriting and signmaking, the letter I/i retains its tittle.

In Vietnamese handwriting, when the tilde is combined with the circumflex, the tilde's left side may be omitted and its right side curled.

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

See also

tone marks

• ◌̀
• ◌́
• ◌̂ (obsolete)
• ◌̄
• ◌̌ (obsolete)