Ã

A with tilde
A with tilde
Ã ã
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Language of origin	Portuguese; Guaraní; Kashubian; Taa; Aromanian; Vietnamese; Greenlandic (obsolete)
Unicode value	U+00C3, U+00E3
History
Development	Ã ã;
Time period	16th century to present
Other
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A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet with a tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromanian, and Vietnamese. It was also used in Greenlandic.

Ã often means a nasal vowel, but not in Aromanian, Vietnamese, nor in its old use in Greenlandic.

References

↑ Ùchwôlënk nr 7/RKJ/10 z dnia 06.07.2010 r. w sprawie szëkù kaszëbsczégò abécadła, Biuletin Radzëznë Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka. 2010, p. 115.