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Ã/ã (a-tilde) is a letter used in some languages, generally considered a variant of the letter A. In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal central unrounded vowel, normally transcribed in IPA as /ɐ̃/ (its exact height varies from open to mid according to dialect). The combination ãe represents the Diphthong [ɐ̃ĩ̯], and ão represents [ɐ̃ũ̯]. Because à is a typically Portuguese character, it is sometimes used as a symbol of the Portuguese language. Th... more

Ã/ã (a-tilde) is a letter used in some languages, generally considered a variant of the letter A. In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal central unrounded vowel, normally transcribed in IPA as /ɐ̃/ (its exact height varies from open to mid according to dialect). The combination ãe represents the Diphthong [ɐ̃ĩ̯], and ão represents [ɐ̃ũ̯]. Because à is a typically Portuguese character, it is sometimes used as a symbol of the Portuguese language. This symbol is also used in the Aromanian, Guaraní, Kashubian and Vietnamese languages. In Vietnamese, it represents [aː] in a high breaking-rising tone. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ã/ stands for a nasal open unrounded vowel, found for example in the French words maman and Jean. less