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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. Old Spanish - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian ( Spanish: castellano antiguo; Old Spanish: roman [3] [roˈman], romançe, [3] romaz [3] ), or Medieval Spanish ( Spanish: español medieval ), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.

  4. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    Ñ, or ñ ( Spanish: eñe, [ˈeɲe] ⓘ ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as ...

  6. Saltillo (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Although in Spanish the basic meaning of the word 'saltillo' refers to the sound made by the glottal stop, it is often applied to the letter used to write that sound, especially the straight apostrophe, and this is the usual meaning of 'saltillo' in English. The alphabet of the Tlapanec language (Me̱ꞌpha̱a̱) uses both uppercase and ...

  7. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as sequences of numbers or ...

  8. Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script is the basis of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and the 26 most widespread letters are the letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet, which are the same letters as the English alphabet . Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any writing system [1] and is the most widely adopted writing ...

  9. Aljamiado - Wikipedia

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    The letter "waw" does not correspond to any exact letter in the Spanish Latin alphabet. This letter and its sound [w] are pronounced in certain digraphs and trigraphs. Worded differently, there are diphthongs and triphthongs as result of certain vowel sequences, where the sound [w] is pronounced and the letter "waw" is used to write it.