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In contrast with English, Spanish has an official body that governs linguistic rules, orthography among them: the Royal Spanish Academy, which makes periodic changes to the orthography. The currently valid work on the orthography is the Ortografía de la lengua española , published in 2010.
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Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses the Latin script.
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Ch (che) and Ll (elle) are also considered letters of the Spanish alphabet, however in 2010 the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) decreed that these letters would no longer be treated as separate letters in dictionaries.
Notes
1. b and v = [β] between vowels, [b] elsewhere. 2. c = [θ] before e or i in northern and central Spain and [s] in other regions, [ɣ] before voiced consonants, and [k] in other positions. 3. ch = [tʃ] or [ʃ] depending on dialect. 4. d = [ð] between vowels, [d] elsewhere. 5. g = [x] or [h] before i or e, e.g. general, [ɡ] at the beginning of a word or after n, e.g. gato, vengo, [ɣ] elsewhere. 6. gu = [ɣw] before a or o, e.g. agua, [ɡw] before a or o, and at the beginning of a word or after n, e...
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1. Vowels are the same as European Spanish. 2. c = [s] before i or e, but [k] elsewhere 3. In some varieties of Caribbean and Chilean Spanish, ch = [ʃ], especially in Panamanian Spanish and in southern Chile. In northern Chile ch = [ts]. 4. g = [x] (or [h] in some countries, or [χ] in Peru) before i or e, [g] or [ɣ] elsewhere 5. gu = [g] before i or e, but [gw] elsewhere 6. ll = [j] or [dʐ] in most places, though the original pronunciation of [ʎ] is still used in some areas. ll = [ʃ] or [ʒ] i...
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Learn about where the Spanish alphabet comes from. An alphabet that is derived from Latin but with some additions of its own.
ORTHOGRAPHY: The Spanish alphabet – El Español por el Mundo. El alfabeto or E l abecedario. There are twenty-seven letters in the Spanish alphabet. The additional letter is ñ, which comes after n in alphabetized lists in Spanish. * K appears only in words borrowed from other languages. * W appears only in words borrowed from other languages.
