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{{short description|Latin letter P with tilde}}
{{One source|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name=P with [[Tilde#Diacritical use|tilde]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|letter=P̃ p̃
|image=Ptilde.png
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
|imagesize=107x139px
|script=[[Latin script]]
|language=[[Yanesha' language|Yanesha']], [[languages of Vanuatu]]
|phonemes={{iPAblink|k͡p}}, {{IPAblink|pʲ}}
|unicode=U+0050, U+0070, U+0303
}}

'''P̃''' ([[Capital letter|majuscule]]: '''P̃''', [[Lower case|minuscule]]: '''p̃''') is a Latin [[P]] with a diacritical [[tilde]]. It is or was used as a [[grapheme]] in some [[languages of Vanuatu]], such as [[North Efate language|North Efate]], [[South Efate language|South Efate]] and [[Namakura language|Namakura]], to represent a sound {{IPAblink|k͡p}}, like the {{angbr|c}} in "'''c'''at" and {{angbr|p}} in "'''p'''ay", [[Co-articulated consonant|pronounced simultaneously]]. It is also used in the [[Yanesha' language|Yanesha']] language.

The letter was introduced by [[missionary|missionaries]] and has been in use for over a hundred years.

In [[Bislama]], the [[lingua franca]] of Vanuatu, p with tilde is called ''snekpi'' "snake-P".

In [[Old English]], it was used as a contraction of the [[penny]], as in {{lang|ang|⋅cxx⋅ p̃.}} ("120 pence").<ref>{{ Citation |last=Thorpe |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Thorne | title=Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Comprising Laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings from Æthelbirht to Cnut, With<!--sic--> an English Translation of the Saxon; The<!--sic--> Laws called Edward the Confessor's; The<!--sic--> Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First: Also,<!--sic--> Monumenta Ecclesiastica Anglicana, From<!--sic--> the Seventh to the Tenth Century; And<!--sic--> the Ancient Latin Version of the Anglo-Saxon Laws. With<!--sic--> a Compendious Glossary, &c. | publisher=Commissioners of the Public Records of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Kingdom]] |date=1840 |contribution=The Laws of King Edgar |contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIdCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA113 |location=London |page=113}}. {{in lang|ang}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|la}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|en}}</ref>

==Computer encoding==
<!-- clean up -->[[Unicode]] encodes p with tilde with a [[combining diacritical mark]] ({{unichar|0303}}), rather than a [[precomposed character]]. As such, the tilde may not align properly with some [[typeface|fonts]] and systems.
In standard HTML code: majuscule ''P&amp;#771;'', minuscule ''p&amp;#771;''.
The Unicode HTML hex code is: minuscule ''&amp;#x0070;&amp;#x0303;'', majuscule ''&amp;#x0050;&amp;#x0303;''.
The Unicode HTML decimal code is: minuscule ''&amp;#112;&amp;#771;'', majuscule ''&amp;#80;&amp;#771;''.

==References==
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