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15 hours ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
15 hours ago · Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. [1] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [3] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 57 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers.
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4 days ago · cu is used in languages such as Nahuatl (that is, based on Spanish or Portuguese orthography) for /kʷ/. In Nahuatl, cu is used before a vowel, whereas uc is used after a vowel. cw is used in modern scholarly editions of Old English for the sound /kw/, which was spelled cƿ , cuu or cu in manuscripts.
3 days ago · Although Spanish orthography is quite phonemic as described above in Orthography (that is, a letter represents a phoneme), this is not always the case. The phoneme /k/, for example, has various orthographic representations; c – c asa (house), qu – queso , k – kilo.
1 day ago · The International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1]
4 days ago · English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [1] [2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...
5 days ago · Spanish is a Romance language spoken throughout the world by more than 400 million people — over 350 million of them as native speakers. Depending on the reckoning, it is between the 2nd and 4th most spoken language on Earth, and it is without a doubt the most spoken of the Romance languages. In Spanish, the term for the language is either ...
