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  2. Orthography - Wikipedia

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    An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis.. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.

  3. Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish - Wikipedia

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    While the majority of lexical differences between Spanish and Portuguese come from the influence of the Arabic language on Spanish vocabulary, [2] [3] most of the similarities and cognate words in the two languages have their origin in Latin, [4] but several of these cognates differ, to a greater or lesser extent, in meaning.

  4. Orthology (language) - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from Greek ortho- ("correct") and -logy ("science of"). This science is a place where psychology, philosophy, linguistics and other fields of learning come together. The most noted use of orthology is for the selection of words for the language of Basic English by the Orthological Institute.

  5. Orthographic depth - Wikipedia

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    The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence. It depends on how easy it is to predict the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling: shallow orthographies are easy to pronounce based on the written word, and deep orthographies are difficult to pronounce based on how they ...

  6. Here's the Important Difference Between Hispanic, Latino and ...

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    Learn the difference between a Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish person. Hispanic describes a Spanish-speaking person while Latino is for people from Latin America.

  7. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, as the Spanish colonization of the Americas was beginning, the phoneme now represented by the letter j had begun to change its place of articulation from palato-alveolar [ʃ] to palatal [ç] and to velar [x], like German ch in Bach (see History of Spanish and Old Spanish language). In southern Spanish dialects and in those ...

  8. Do you know the difference between Latino, Hispanic and Spanish?

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    There's a difference, of course, between ethnicity, nationality, and heritage -- but when it. ... Think language-- so if someone is from Spanish speaking origin or ancestry, ...

  9. Baby Has $5 Million Surgery to Remove Left Side of Brain at ...

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    Andalusia describes Caper’s time spent in the hospital after his second surgery as “awful,” saying that they felt like they could see him regressing.