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Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
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Accents—used in Modern Spanish to mark the vowel of the stressed syllable in words where stress is not predictable from rules—came into use sporadically in the 15th century, and massively in the 16th century. Their use began to be standardized with the advent of the Spanish Royal Academy in the 18th century. See also Spanish orthography.
The letter «Ñ». The letter «Ñ» was originally an abbreviation of «NN», the digraph chosen by medieval Spanish to represent the new nasal palatal phoneme « eñe » (or enye in English), which hadn't existed in Latin. These double letters were often abbreviated to a single «N» with a tilde above it. 4. The letter «W».
Nov 24, 2016 · English: Blackboard used in Spanish language class at Harvard University reveals students' difficulty in correctly placing the acute accent used in Spanish orthography. March 4, 2008 photo by John Stephen Dwyer
Jun 20, 2018 · The Spanish letter names are explained in chapter 5.4.3 from the Spanish Orthography published in 2010 by the RAE. Following on is a translation into English of the most relevant parts. The Spanish alphabet derives from the Latin alphabet, and also the letter names.
Spanish prose flowered during the reign of King Alfonso X the Wise of Castile (1252-84), who in addition to being the king and a poet, also found time to write an encyclopaedia in Spanish called Las Partidas, which contains laws, chronicles, recipes, and rules for hunting, chess and card games. The first Spanish grammar, by Antonio de Nebrija ...
