Unlike many other letters that use diacritic marks (such as "Ü" in Catalan and Spanish and "Ç" in Catalan, French and Portuguese), "Ñ" in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is considered a letter in its own right, has its own name (in Spanish: ""), and its own place in the alphabet (after "N"). Historically it came from a superscript abbreviation for a doubled N. Its alphabetical independence is similar to the Germanic "W", which came from a doubled "V".