tildenuL

TildenuL is a fictional typographic and linguistic construct used in discussions of constructed languages and speculative typography. It designates a null or elided segment at the end of a morpheme and is sometimes used to illustrate phonotactic processes in language design.

Etymology: The name blends tilde, a diacritic often signaling nasality or approximation, with null, indicating absence.

In description: The symbol is often depicted as a tilde applied over the letter L, but in plain text authors may render it as tildenuL. It is used to illustrate contracted or elided suffixes in examples.

Usage and reception: In conlang forums and speculative linguistics, tildenuL serves as a teaching aid for elision phenomena; it has no official status in natural languages, and its usage remains informal.

Variants and related concepts: Related notions include nasal diacritics, deletion markers, and other fictional diacritics used in constructed languages.