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The Spanish language is written using the Spanish alphabet, which is the ISO Latin script with one additional letter, eñe ñ , for a total of 27 letters. [1] Although the letters k and w are part of the alphabet, they appear only in loanwords such as karate, kilo, waterpolo and wolframio (tungsten or wolfram) and in sensational spellings: okupa, bakalao.
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873), who formally developed the method to break ciphers .
Tamil has a unique 30-letter alphabet. With the help of diacritics, as many as 247 letters can be written. அ ஆ இ ஈ உ ஊ எ ஏ ஐ ஒ ஓ ஔ க ங ச ஞ ட ண த ந ப ம ய ர ல வ ழ ள ற ன
The modern Filipino alphabet is made up of 28 letters, which includes the entire 26-letter set of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, the Spanish Ñ, and the Ng. The Ng digraph came from the Pilipino Abakada alphabet of the Fourth Republic .
The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.
It is a letter in the Spanish alphabet that is used for many words—for example, the Spanish word año "year" ( anno in Old Spanish) derived from Latin: annus. Other languages used the macron over an n or m to indicate simple doubling.
1.35 Spanish. 1.36 Swedish. 1.37 Turkish. 1.38 Ukrainian. 1.39 Welsh. 2 Unofficial editions. ... because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for ...
There is no agreement among scholars on how many vowel allophones Spanish has; an often [78] postulated number is five [i, u, e̞, o̞, a̠]. Some scholars, [79] however, state that Spanish has eleven allophones: the close and mid vowels have close [i, u, e, o] and open [ɪ, ʊ, ɛ, ɔ] allophones, whereas /a/ appears in front , central and ...