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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.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Letter sequences: tx (also common in Basque, however) and tg; Letter y is only used in the combination ny and loanwords; Letters k and w are rare and only used in loanwords (e.g. walkman) Word endings: -o, -a, -es, -ció, -tat, -ment; Word beginning: ll-(also common in Spanish and Welsh, however) Common words: això, amb, mateix, tots, que
Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite) [a] and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.
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There is no agreement among scholars on how many vowel allophones Spanish has; an often [78] postulated number is five [i, u, e̞, o̞, a̠]. Some scholars, [ 79 ] however, state that Spanish has eleven allophones: the close and mid vowels have close [ i , u , e , o ] and open [ ɪ , ʊ , ɛ , ɔ ] allophones, whereas /a/ appears in front [ a ...
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