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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.
A one-letter word is a word composed of a single letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining the notions of word and letter. One-letter words have an uncertain status in language theory, dictionaries and social usage.
The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation it is y . Because the English name of the letter J, jay, starts with [dʒ] (voiced postalveolar affricate), the approximant is sometimes instead called yod (jod), as in the phonological history terms yod-dropping and yod-coalescence.
The IPA symbol derives from n and j , n for nasality and j denoting palatalization. [2] In Spanish and languages whose writing systems are influenced by Spanish orthography, it is represented by the letter ñ , called eñe (). In French and Italian orthographies the sound is represented by the digraph gn .
Accented letters: â ç è é ê î ô û, rarely ë ï ; ù only in the word où, à only at the ends of a few words (including à).Never á í ì ó ò ú.; Angle quotation marks: « » (though "curly-Q" quotation marks are also used); dialogue traditionally indicated by means of dashes.
The replacement of ñ with another letter alters the pronunciation and meaning of a word or name, in the same manner that replacing any letter in a given word with another one would. For example, Peña is a common Spanish surname and a common noun that means "rocky hill"; it is often anglicized as Pena , changing the name to the Spanish word ...
However, rr is a trill that contrasts with the single-letter flap, as in Spanish, and the palatal version of n is written ñ . In several European writing systems, including the English one, the doubling of the letter c or k is represented as the heterogeneous digraph ck instead of cc or kk respectively.
In the 2010 Orthography of the Spanish Language, Ch is no longer considered a letter of its own but rather a digraph consisting of two letters. [ 2 ] Until 1994 ch was treated as a single letter in Spanish collation order, inserted between C and D ; in this way, mancha was after manco and before manda .