In Tagalog, Visayan, and other Philippine languages, most Spanish terms that include "ñ" are respelled with "ny". The conventional exceptions (with considerable variations) are proper names, which usually retain "ñ" and their original Spanish or Hispanicised spelling ("Santo Niño", "Parañaque", "Mañalac", "Malacañan"). It is collated as the 15th letter of the Filipino alphabet. In old Filipino orthography, the letter was also used, along with "g", to represent the velar nasal sound (except at the end of a word, when "ng" would be used) if appropriate instead of a tilde, which originally spanned a sequence of "n" and "g" (as in "n͠g"), such as "pan͠galan" ("name"). That is because the old orthography was based on Spanish, and without the tilde, "pangalan" would have been pronounced with the sequence (therefore "pang-GAlan"). The form "ñg" became a more common way to represent "n͠g" until the early 20th century, mainly because it was more readily available in typesets than the tilde spanning both letters.