Anonymous 6/21/2016 21:29:00 No. 984 [Open] [Reply] Actions report Translate Thread... Hide Thread Translate... Hide Post >>/983/ >>/979/ linguist here ñ is originally short for nn (which was written with two ns stacked atop each other in medieval manuscripts to conserve space), in a similar way as german äöü can be decomposed as ae oe ue, and danish å as aa.