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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.
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is kay (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ /), plural kays. [1] The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive.
The diminutive suffixes -ke(n) (from which the Western Dutch and later Standard Dutch form -tje has derived by palatalization), -eke(n), -ske(n), -ie, -kie, and -pie are (still) regularly used in different dialects instead of the former mentioned. Some of these form part of expressions that became standard language:
Voiced retroflex plosive; Bassa, Ewe; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ɗ ɗ 𐞌 D with hook: Voiced alveolar implosive; Bushi, Fula, Hausa, Maore, Serer; formerly used in Shona; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] ᶑ 𐞍 D with hook and tail: IPA; reportedly used in Ngad'a; Superscript form is an IPA ...
Generally, nouns ending in -á, -é, and -ó add -s to form the plural, [43] while nouns ending in -í and -ú can admit both variants (-s and -es) to form the plural. [44] For example, el café 'café' has the plural form los cafés while the noun el tabú 'taboo' has the plural forms los tabús and los tabúes.
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.
Similarly, the participle agrees with the subject when it is used with ser to form the "true" passive voice (e.g. La carta fue escrita ayer 'The letter was written [got written] yesterday.'), and also when it is used with estar to form a "passive of result", or stative passive (as in La carta ya está escrita 'The letter is already written.').
Latin K with acute. Ḱ ḱ (K with acute accent) is used in the following sense: Armenian latin orthography; transliteration of Cyrillic Kje (Ќ, ќ) that is used in Macedonian. [1] /k̠ʷ/ in the Saanich orthography; in the Santali Latin orthography; transliteration of the Kharosthi script; representing the Proto-Indo-European phoneme * /kʲ/