Isn't it a rounded variant of Latin letter n ? Then it could exist also in uppercase form (like "n" and "N")
It could also be used as a spacing version of the combining tilde diacritic, to be written after the letter instead of being combined above it (so "el Niño" would we written with it as "el Nin<LATIN SMALL TILDE LETTER>o" (without using the encoded tilde symbol in the ugly "el Nin~o", but with a normal letter), or capitalized as "EL NIN<LATIN CAPITAL TILDE LETTER>O" (instead of the ugly "EL NIN~O"). I don't think that "LINEARIZED TILDE" is the correct name. I think it's better named LATIN TILDE LETTER, to be sorted between LATIN LETTER N and LATIN LETTER O (unlike the ASCII tile symbol which sorts with other symbols after spacing whitespaces but before all digits and letters) 2017-12-30 2:08 GMT+01:00 David Starner via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_reference_alphabet says "The 1982 > revision of the alphabet was made by Michael Mann and David Dalby, who had > attended the Niamey conference. It has 60 letters; some are quite different > from the 1978 version." and offers the linearized tilde, a tilde squeezed > into the space and location of the normal lowercase 'x' or 'o'. (See > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_ > letter_Linearized_tilde_(Mann-Dalby_form).svg )The German WP article > specifically says "Der Buchstabe ist in keine aktuelle Orthografie > <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthografie> übernommen und ist auch nicht > in Unicode <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode> enthalten (Stand 2013, > Unicode Version 6.3)." "The letter is not included in any current > spelling and is not included in Unicode." Should it be? >