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  2. 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 ...

  3. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined, or flowing, manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected. Not all cursive copybooks join all letters; formal ...

  4. Czech orthography - Wikipedia

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    Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech.The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and church reformist Jan Hus, the namesake of the Hussite movement, in one of his seminal works, De orthographia bohemica (On Bohemian orthography).

  5. Portuguese orthography - Wikipedia

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    For the letter r, "at the start of a syllable (not between vowels)" means "at the beginning of a word or after l, n, s, or a prefix ending in a consonant". For letters with more than one common pronunciation, their most common phonetic values are given on the left side of the semicolon; sounds after it occur only in a limited number of ...

  6. Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in California

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    Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

  7. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Calligraphy. By script. The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered excepting several letters splitting—i.e. J from I , and U from V —additions such as W , and extensions such as letters with diacritics, it forms the ...

  8. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    Voiced retroflex plosive; Bassa, Ewe; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] ฦŠ ษ— ๐žŒ D with hook: Voiced alveolar implosive; Bushi, Fula, Hausa, Maore, Serer; formerly used in Shona; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] แถ‘ ๐ž D with hook and tail: IPA; reportedly used in Ngad'a; Superscript form is an IPA ...

  9. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    In other words, while the shapes of letters like A, B, E, H, K, M, O, P, T, X, Y and so on are shared between the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets (and small differences in their canonical forms may be considered to be of a merely typographical nature), it would still be problematic for a multilingual character set or a font to provide only ...