Ņ Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Ņ is the fifteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet. Its name is eņe. Although an N with a tilde, it is a separate letter in Spanish, alphabetized between N and O.
Historically, ņ represented two N's, written as an N with a smaller N, the tilde, over it. For example, the Spanish word aņo (year) is derived from Latin ANNVS.
In Spanish and some other languages (for example Quechua) whose orthographies were created by Spanish colonialists, it represents a voiced palatal nasal. It may also roughly be represented or pronounced as ny, e.g. piņata -> pinyata. Other Romance languages have this sound as well, expressed by nh in Portuguese and gn (like lasagna) in Italian and French.
It is used in a number of English words of Spanish origin, such as jalapeņo, piņa colada, and piņata, though these are often spelled in English with an n instead, due to the absence of the ņ from the English alphabet. Some people from Spanish-speaking countries who have emigrated to the United States, such as Carlos Castaneda, have also anglicized their names by changing ņ into n.
The letter Ņ is also used when writing the Tatar language in Latin script.
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