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@Largoplazo: I didn't mean anything more than that אָ and Ñ are both distinctive markers of their respective alphabets, and therefore "letters with a cultural significance". That's the only purpose of linking to the Ñ#Cultural significance section. Certainly didn't mean to imply that there was a special etymological or other linguistic connection between the two, just that they were a bit similar in this respect to e.g. ذ for Arabic or IJ for Dutch.--Pharos (talk) 18:45, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Pharos: To begin with, ذ is not unique to Arabic, as it's used, at least, in Persian and Urdu as well. As for Dutch IJ, do Dutch speakers hold it up as a symbol of cultural significance?
In any event, I don't see that anything is added by expressing the analogy. "The uniqueness of this letter to the language's writing sometimes translates into its use as a symbol of cultural significance" is self-explanatory; mentioning that Spanish has Ñ offers no assistance in understanding that to anybody who didn't already know that Ñ is unique to Spanish and (assuming it is one) a symbol of cultural significance to Spanish speakers. One wouldn't write, in Cat, "The young of cats are called 'kittens', in the same way that the young of dogs are called 'puppies'" or, in France, "The capital of France is Paris, in the same way that the capital of Liberia is Monrovia." Even when these analogies are logically valid ones, they're trivially so and they serve no purpose. The analogy with Ñ is even less useful to the extent that not every reader of this Wikipedia is terribly familar in the first place with Ñ. Largoplazo (talk) 20:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
