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Originally Posted by literacola
Don't forget ü.
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True, as David said they're both diacriticals.
Still, I never learnt the "diéresis" as an accent in Spanish: it is used to pronounce a letter that you normally wouldn't without it, while accents are used to stress syllables.
@David: thank you for the historical data... I had never thought about the origin of "ñ".