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In the diphthong [ej], e.g. in the words peine [ˈpɛjne] 'comb' and rey [ˈrɛj] king; Mid back vowel /o/ The close allophone is phonetically close-mid , and appears in open syllables, e.g. in the word como [ˈkomo] 'how' The open allophone is phonetically open-mid , and appears: In closed syllables, e.g. in the word con [kɔn] 'with'
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 ...
No is only contracted when followed by a word with a consonant, e.g. nan no sa > nan n’ sa (they don't know). N’ is never affixed to other words. e > ’e / ’é. E is only contracted when preceded by a word with a vowel, e.g. Anna lo manda e > Anna lo mand’e / mand’é (Anna will send it).
e: close-mid front unrounded vowel: US English bear, Spanish él, French année, German mehr, Italian rete, Catalan més: E: ɛ: open-mid front unrounded vowel: English bed, French même, German Männer, Italian ferro, Catalan mes, Spanish perro {æ: near-open front unrounded vowel: English cat, Finnish mäki: y: y: close front rounded vowel
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In the Western Romance languages, a prothetic vowel was inserted at the beginning of any word that began with /s/ and another consonant, e.g. Latin spatha 'two-edged sword, typically used by cavalry' becomes the normal word for 'sword' in Romance languages with an inserted /e/: Spanish/Portuguese espada, Catalan espasa, Old French espede ...
The letters used for non-existent phonemes were dropped. [35] Afterwards, however, the alphabet went through many different changes. The final classical form of Etruscan contained 20 letters. Four of them are vowels— a, e, i, u —six fewer letters than the earlier forms. The script in its classical form was used until the 1st century CE.
In standard European Spanish, as well as in many dialects in the Americas (e.g. standard Argentine or Rioplatense, inland Colombian, and Mexican), word-final /n/ is, by default (i.e. when followed by a pause or by an initial vowel in the following word), alveolar, like English [n] in pen. When followed by a consonant, it assimilates to that ...