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In Portuguese, the character 'Ã'/'ã' represents a nasal central unrounded vowel, normally transcribed in IPA as (its exact height varies from open to mid according to the speaker's dialect). Because it is a typically Portuguese character, it is sometimes used as a symbol of the Portuguese language.
Portuguese has five nasal vowels:

★ (ã, an, am)

★ (en, em)

★ (in, im)

★ (õ, on, om)

★ (un, um)
As well as five nasal diphthongs:

★ (ãe)

★ (ão, -am)

★ (-em, -en-)

★ (õe)

★ (ui)
This symbol is also used in the Kashubian and Vietnamese languages.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, stands for a nasal open unrounded vowel, found for example in the French words ''mam'an''' and ''Je'an'''.

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See also

★ Ñ

★ Õ

★ Tilde