Where did the letter Ñ come from?

As I talked about the Spanish alphabet and, Ñ which is the unique character that the Spanish language has. They added this special letter Ñ to the original Latin alphabet which looks exactly like English alphabet. Then, I thought, how did this magical letter Ñ come to the alphabet? First of all, the letter Ñ is actually a ligature of nn, which means that nn became a letter ñ, as the letter w was formed from vv. Thus, in Old Spanish, when they yet did not have this letter, they used to spell this letter with double n. Annos instead of años. In order to indicate the duplication of a letter, a lot … Continue reading Where did the letter Ñ come from?