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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.
[3] [4] The 5000 words in Davies' list are lemmas. [5] A lemma is the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary. [6] Singular nouns and plurals, for example, are treated as the same word, as are infinitives and verb conjugations. The table below includes the top 100 words from Davies' list of 5000.
Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language, it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [3]
letters b and g (without preceding n) are found outside of loanwords; occasional use of š and ΕΎ, mainly in loanwords (plus combination tš) loanwords more common generally than in Finnish, mainly loaned from German; words end in consonants more frequently than in Finnish, word-final b, d, v being particularly typical
Lists of Spanish words of foreign origin (16 P) Pages in category "Lists of loanwords" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Luna – 357,578 – Can be any of Spanish, Italian, and Romanian, meaning "Moon". Domínguez – 348,182 - Son of Domingo , from Latin Domenicus, Dominus, "master" Garza – 335,829 – From Basque and Galician, Spanish meaning "heron", used as a descriptor or as part of a place name. Velásquez – 331,510 – Son of Velasco
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Pages in category "Spanish words and phrases" The following 169 pages are in this category, out of 169 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...