enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology

    Southern European Spanish (Andalusian Spanish, Murcian Spanish, etc.) and several lowland dialects in Latin America (such as those from the Caribbean, Panama, and the Atlantic coast of Colombia) exhibit more extreme forms of simplification of coda consonants: word-final dropping of /s/ (e.g. compás [komˈpa] 'musical beat' or 'compass')

  3. Philippine Spanish - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Spanish

    Philippine Spanish speakers may be found nationwide, mostly in urban areas but with the largest concentration of speakers in Metro Manila.Smaller communities are found particularly in regions where the economy is dominated by large agricultural plantations, such as the sugarcane-producing regions of Negros, particularly around Bacolod and Dumaguete, and in the fruit-producing regions of ...

  4. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_orthography

    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 ...

  5. Filipino orthography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_orthography

    A common practice in the orthography of some of the Philippine languages during the Spanish colonial period up to the 1960s was the use of tilde written over g̃, a letter which was notably used to shorten the words nang (ergative case marker) and man͠gá (pluralization particle) into ng̃ and mg̃á respectively. No literature could be found ...

  6. Chavacano - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavacano

    Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic...

    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.

  8. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties

    Spanish is also an official language in Equatorial Guinea, and many people speak it fluently. [10] Though no longer an official language in the Philippines, Philippine Spanish has had a tremendous influence on the native tongues of the archipelago, including Filipino.

  9. Spanish language in the Philippines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the...

    Official copy of the "Acta de la proclamación de independencia del pueblo Filipino", the Philippine Declaration of Independence. Spanish was the sole official language of the Philippines throughout its more than three centuries of Spanish rule, from the late 16th century to 1898, then a co-official language (with English) under its American rule, a status it retained (now alongside Filipino ...