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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.
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'Hamburgevons' rendered using seven fonts: Helvetica Neue, Semplicità, Ernestine, Gimlet, Marcia, Adobe Caslon and Garibaldi The word Hamburgevons (also Hamburgefons, Hamburgefonstiv or Hamburgefönstiv) is a short piece of meaningless filler text used for assessing the design and the appearance of a typeface.
The de Landa alphabet is the correspondence of Spanish letters and glyphs written in the pre-Columbian Maya script, which the 16th-century bishop of Yucatán, Diego de Landa, recorded as part of his documentation of the Maya civilization.
The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española; ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language. [2] It was created in Mexico in 1951 and represents the union of all the separate academies in the Spanish-speaking world.
Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The 23-letter adverb anticonstitucionalmente means 'anticonstitutionally'. [7] Anticonstitucionalmente is also the Portuguese translation; the French translation, anticonstitutionnellement , is an exceptionally long word as well (25 letters).