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  2. Iberian language - Wikipedia

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    The Iberian language was the language of an indigenous western European people identified by Greek and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula in the pre-Migration Era (before about AD 375).

  3. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    A small number of words in Mexican Spanish retain the historical /ʃ/ pronunciation, e.g. mexica. There are two possible pronunciations of /ɡs/ in standard speech: the first one is [ks], with a voiceless plosive, but it is commonly realized as [ɣs] instead (hence the phonemic transcription /ɡs/). Voicing is not contrastive in the syllable coda.

  4. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    A common pronunciation of /f/ in nonstandard speech is the voiceless bilabial ... RFE Phonetic Alphabet – phonetic transcription system for Iberian languages, ...

  5. Iberian - Wikipedia

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    Iberian refers to Iberia.Most commonly Iberian refers to: Someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula, namely from Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra.; The term Iberian is also used to refer to anything pertaining to the former Kingdom of Iberia, an exonym for the Georgian kingdom of Kartli.

  6. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon.Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are mutually intelligible to some degree.

  8. Betacism - Wikipedia

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    The saying is a pun referring to the fact that the Iberians would generally pronounce the letter v the same as b (which uses the sound [b] or [β]) instead of [w] or [v]. In Latin, the words vīvĕre ("to live") and bĭbĕre ("to drink") are distinguished by the use of the letters v and b, thus creating a point of confusion in the Iberian ...

  9. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...