Editing Tilde (section)

====Abbreviation====
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Later, it was used to make [[scribal abbreviation|abbreviations]] in medieval [[Latin language|Latin]] documents. When an {{angle bracket|n}} or {{angle bracket|m}} followed a vowel, it was often omitted, and a tilde (physically, a small {{angle bracket|N}}) was placed over the preceding vowel to indicate the missing letter; this is the origin of the use of tilde to indicate nasalization (compare [[Umlaut (diacritic)#Umlaut history|the development of the umlaut]] as an abbreviation of {{angle bracket|e}}.){{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=Seemingly contradicted by Reimer (2015)}} A tilde represented an omitted {{angle bracket|a}} or a syllable containing it.<ref name="Reimer2015">{{Cite web |last=Reimer |first=Stephen R. |date=30 May 2015 |title=IV.vi. Paleography: Scribal Abbreviations |url=https://sites.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/abbrevtn.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241129100307/https://sites.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/abbrevtn.htm |archive-date=2024-11-29 |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=Manuscript Studies: Medieval and Early Modern}}</ref> The practice of using the tilde over a vowel to indicate omission of an {{angle bracket|n}} or {{angle bracket|m}} continued in printed books in [[French language|French]] as a means of reducing text length until the 17th century. It was also used in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

The tilde was also used occasionally to make other abbreviations, such as over the letter {{angle bracket|q}}, making {{char|q̃}}, [[wikt:q̃|to signify the word ''que'']] ("that"){{Citation needed|date=December 2024|reason=Seemingly contradicted by Reimer (2015)}}. It also appears for ''qua'' and together with the letter {{angle bracket|p}} to form {{char|p̃}} for ''pra''.<ref name="Reimer2015" />