Editing Tilde (section)

====Nasalization====
It is also as a small {{angle bracket|n}} that the tilde originated when written above other letters, marking a [[Latin language|Latin]] {{angle bracket|n}} which had been [[elision|elided]] in old Galician-Portuguese. In modern [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] it indicates [[nasalization]] of the base vowel: {{lang|pt|mão}} "hand", from Lat. ''manu-''; {{lang|pt|razões}} "reasons", from Lat. {{lang|la|rationes}}.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} This usage has been adopted in the orthographies of several [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|native languages of South America]], such as [[Guarani language|Guarani]] and [[Nheengatu language|Nheengatu]], as well as in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA) and many other phonetic alphabets. For example, {{IPA|[ljɔ̃]}} is the IPA transcription of the pronunciation of the French place-name ''[[Lyon]]''.

In [[Breton language|Breton]], the symbol {{angle bracket|ñ}} after a vowel means that the letter {{angle bracket|n}} serves only to give the vowel a nasalised pronunciation, without being itself pronounced, as it normally is. For example, {{angle bracket|an}} gives the pronunciation {{IPA|[ãn]}} whereas {{angle bracket|añ}} gives {{IPA|[ã]}}.

In the [[Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft|DMG]] romanization of [[Tunisian Arabic]], the tilde is used for nasal vowels õ and ṏ.