Ñ

Ñ or ñ ( ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called ) on top of an upper- or lower-case . The origin dates back to medieval Spanish, when the Latin digraph began to be abbreviated using a single with a roughly wavy line above it, and it eventually became part of the Spanish alphabet in the eighteenth century, when it was first formally defined.

Since then, it has been adopted by other languages, such as Galician, Asturian, Aragonese, Basque, Chavacano, several Philippine languages (especially Filipino and the Bisayan group), Chamorro, Guarani, Quechua, Mapudungun, Mandinka, Papiamento, and Tetum. It also appears in the Latin transliteration of Tocharian and many Indian languages, where it represents or (similar to the in canyon). Additionally, it was adopted in Crimean Tatar, Kazakh, ALA-LC romanization for Turkic languages, the Common Turkic Alphabet, Nauruan, and romanized Quenya, where it represents the phoneme (like the in wing). It has also been adopted in both Breton and Rohingya, where it indicates the nasalization of the preceding vowel.