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192 relations: A, Abbreviation, Acronym, Acute accent, Affricate, Al Jazeera Arabic, Aljamiado, Alphabet, Alveolar process, American English, Andrés Bello, Apical consonant, Approximant, Arabic alphabet, Arroba, Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, At sign, Axarquía, Ç, Ñ, B, Biochemistry, Blackletter, C, Catalan language, Cedilla, Cent (currency), Centavo, Ch (digraph), Chilean manual alphabet, Circumflex, Clitic, Close vowel, Colón (currency), Collation, Colombian Spanish, Colon (punctuation), Comma, Complementary distribution, Consonant, Currency symbol, Cursive, D, Dash, Dead key, Debuccalization, Decimal separator, Denti-alveolar consonant, Department of Ancash, Diacritic, ... Expand index (142 more) »
- Indo-European Latin-script orthographies
A
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin, meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis.
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
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Acute accent
The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
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Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
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Al Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera Arabic (الجزيرة) is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language news television network.
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Aljamiado
doi-access.
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Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
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Alveolar process
The alveolar process is the portion of bone containing the tooth sockets on the jaw bones (in humans, the maxilla and the mandible).
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Andrés Bello
Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López (November 29, 1781 – October 15, 1865) was a Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture.
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Apical consonant
An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue (apex) in conjunction with upper articulators from lips to postalveolar, and possibly prepalatal.
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Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
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Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
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Arroba
Arroba is a Portuguese and Spanish custom unit of weight, mass or volume.
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Association of Academies of the Spanish Language
The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (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.
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At sign
The at sign,, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget.
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Axarquía
Axarquía is a comarca of Andalusia in southern Spain.
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Ç
Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets.
Ñ
Ñ, or ñ (eñe), 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. Spanish orthography and Ñ are Spanish language.
B
B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
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Blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century.
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C
C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
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Cedilla
A cedilla (from Spanish, "small ceda", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French cédille), is a hook or tail (¸) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation.
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Cent (currency)
The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.
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Centavo
The centavo (Spanish and Portuguese 'one hundredth') is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world.
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Ch (digraph)
Ch is a digraph in the Latin script.
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Chilean manual alphabet
The Chilean manual alphabet is used by the Chilean deaf community to sign Spanish words and is incorporated into Chilean Sign Language.
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Circumflex
The circumflex because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
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Clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.
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Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.
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Colón (currency)
The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies.
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Collation
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.
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Colombian Spanish
Colombian Spanish (español colombiano) is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in Colombia.
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Colon (punctuation)
The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically.
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Comma
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.
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Complementary distribution
In linguistics, complementary distribution (as distinct from contrastive distribution and free variation) is the relationship between two different elements of the same kind in which one element is found in one set of environments and the other element is found in a non-intersecting (complementary) set of environments.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
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Currency symbol
A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit.
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Cursive
Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters.
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D
D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Dash
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line.
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Dead key
A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter.
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Debuccalization
Debuccalization or deoralization is a sound change or alternation in which an oral consonant loses its original place of articulation and moves it to the glottis. The pronunciation of a consonant as is sometimes called aspiration, but in phonetics, aspiration is the burst of air accompanying a stop.
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Decimal separator
A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45).
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Denti-alveolar consonant
In linguistics, a denti-alveolar consonant or dento-alveolar consonant is a consonant that is articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and the upper teeth, such as and in languages such as French, Italian and Spanish.
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Department of Ancash
Ancash (Anqash; Áncash) is a department and region in western Peru.
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Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
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Diaeresis (diacritic)
Diaeresis is a name for the two dots diacritical mark because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
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Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
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Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
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Dollar sign
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital crossed with one or two vertical strokes (or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
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Don (honorific)
The term Don (literally 'Lord') abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines.
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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E
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Elevator
An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.
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Elision
In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.
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Ellipsis
The ellipsis, rendered, alternatively described as suspension points/dots, or points/periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot,.
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English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. Spanish orthography and English orthography are indo-European Latin-script orthographies.
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Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
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Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.
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Exclamation mark
The exclamation mark (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis.
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F
F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Formant
In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
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Full stop
The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).
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G
G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
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Galician language
Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
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Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
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Guillemet
Guillemets (also) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, and, used as quotation marks in a number of languages.
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H
H, or h, is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Hypercorrection
In sociolinguistics, hypercorrection is the nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription.
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I
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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Interpunct
An interpunct, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin.
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Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.
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Inverted question and exclamation marks
The inverted question mark,, and inverted exclamation mark,, are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages which have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray languages. Spanish orthography and inverted question and exclamation marks are Spanish language.
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J
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that appears three times a year.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity".
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Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish.
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K
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
L
L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Laminal consonant
A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue in contact with upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, to possibly, as far back as the prepalatal arch, although in the last contact may involve parts behind the blade as well.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
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List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.
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Ll
Ll/ll is a digraph that occurs in several languages.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
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Long s
The long s,, also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter, found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries.
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Ludwig (given name)
Ludwig is a German name, deriving from Old High German Hludwīg, also spelled Hluotwīg.
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M
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin (Menaḥem Begin,; Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937);; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
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Mexican Spanish
Mexican Spanish (español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in the United Mexican States.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Monophthong
A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at only beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
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Morisco
Moriscos (mouriscos; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam.
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MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
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N
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
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Name of Mexico
Several hypotheses seek to explain the etymology of Mexico which dates, at least, back to 14th century Mesoamerica.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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O
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Old Spanish
Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian (castellano antiguo; roman, romançe, romaz), or Medieval Spanish (español medieval), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Ordinal indicator
st described below is intentional and is different from the style 1st --> In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number.
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Ordinal number
In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.
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Ordinal numeral
In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").
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Orthographic transcription
Orthographic transcription is a transcription method that employs the standard spelling system of each target language.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
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Oxytone
In linguistics, an oxytone (from the ὀξύτονος,, 'sharp-sounding') is a word with the stress on the last syllable, such as the English words correct and reward.
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P
P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Paisa
Paisa (also transliterated as pice, pesa, poysha, poisha and baisa) is a monetary unit in several countries.
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Paisa (region)
A Paisa is someone from a region in the northwest of Colombia, including part of the West and Central cordilleras of the Andes in Colombia.
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Paraguayan guaraní
The guaraní (plural: guaraníes; sign: ₲; code: PYG) is the national currency unit of Paraguay.
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Paroxytone
In linguistics, a paroxytone (παροξύτονος) is a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable, such as the English word potáto.
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Pátzcuaro
Pátzcuaro is a city and municipality located in the state of Michoacán, Mexico.
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Pedro Ximénez
Pedro Ximénez (also known as PX and many other variations) is the name of a white Spanish wine grape variety grown in several Spanish wine regions but most notably in the denominación de origen (DO) of Montilla-Moriles.
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Peruvian Spanish
Peruvian Spanish (Español peruano) is a family of dialects of the Spanish language that have been spoken in Peru since its introduction by Spanish conquistadors in 1532.
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Peso
The peso is the monetary unit of several Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, as well as the Philippines.
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Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
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Phonemic orthography
A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words).
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Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives
In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions.
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Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩
In English, the digraph th usually represents either the voiced dental fricative phoneme (as in this) or the voiceless dental fricative phoneme (as in thing).
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Proparoxytone
In linguistics, a proparoxytone (προπαροξύτονος) is a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable, such as the English words "cinema" and "operational".
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Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood.
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Q
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
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Quetzaltenango
Quetzaltenango (also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela) is both the seat of the namesake Department and municipality, in Guatemala.
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Quotation mark
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.
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R
R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Regnal number
Regnal numbers are ordinal numbers used to distinguish among persons with the same name who held the same office.
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Relative pronoun
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause.
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Rioplatense Spanish
Rioplatense Spanish, also known as Rioplatense Castilian, or River Plate Spanish, is a variety of SpanishAlvar, Manuel, "Manual de dialectología hispánica.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.
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S
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Semicolon
The semicolon (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation.
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Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.
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Sensational spelling
Sensational spelling is the deliberate spelling of a word in a non-standard way for special effect.
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Serial comma
In English-language punctuation, the serial comma, also referred to as the series comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma, is a comma placed immediately after the penultimate term and before the coordinating conjunction (and or or) in a series of three or more terms.
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Sibilant
Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.
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Small caps
In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish language in the Americas
The different varieties of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian peninsula, collectively known as Peninsular Spanish and Spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in Africa and Asia.
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Spanish language in the United States
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.
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Spanish manual alphabet
The Spanish manual alphabet is a fingerspelling system used in Spain. Spanish orthography and Spanish manual alphabet are Spanish language.
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Spanish peseta
The peseta was the currency of Spain between 1868 and 2002.
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Spanish phonology
This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Spanish language. Spanish orthography and Spanish phonology are Spanish language.
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Spelling
Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language.
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Spelling reform
A spelling reform is a deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated change to spelling rules.
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Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
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Stress in Spanish
Stress in Spanish is functional: to change the placement of stress changes the meaning of a sentence or phrase: for example, célebre ('famous'), celebre (' he/she celebrates'), and celebré ('I celebrated') contrast only by stress.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
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T
T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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The Revolt of the Masses
The Revolt of the Masses (La rebelión de las masas) is a book by José Ortega y Gasset.
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Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.
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Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
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U
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Ultima (linguistics)
In linguistics, the ultima is the last syllable of a word, the penult is the next-to-last syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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V
V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
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Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
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Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps
The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants
The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.
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Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Voiced palatal fricative
The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Voiced palatal lateral approximant
The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Voiceless postalveolar fricative
A voiceless postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen (VW)English:,. is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Vowel hiatus
In phonology, hiatus or diaeresis (also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant.
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W
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Wahid
Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "One", "Absolute One".
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Wamba (king)
Wamba (Medieval Latin: VVamba, Vamba, Wamba; 630 – 687/688) was the king of the Visigoths from 672 to 680.
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Wittenberg
Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is the fourth-largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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X
X, or x, is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Y
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Ybarra
Ybarra is a surname of Basque origin, and may refer to.
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Yeísmo
Yeísmo (literally "Y-ism") is a distinctive feature of certain dialects of the Spanish language, characterized by the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme (written) and its merger into the phoneme (written). It is an example of delateralization.
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Yglesias
Yglesias is a surname.
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Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality.
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Z
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet.
Zacatecas (city)
Zacatecas is the principal city within the municipality in Mexico of the same name, and the capital of the state of Zacatecas.
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Zenobia Camprubí
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
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See also
Indo-European Latin-script orthographies
- Catalan orthography
- Classical Milanese orthography
- Czech orthography
- Danish orthography
- Dutch orthography
- English orthography
- Faroese orthography
- French orthography
- German orthography
- Icelandic orthography
- Irish orthography
- Italian orthography
- Latin phonology and orthography
- Latvian orthography
- Limba Sarda Comuna
- Lists of spelling-to-sound correspondences in Catalan
- Lithuanian orthography
- McConnell–Laubach orthography
- Mistralian norm
- Norwegian orthography
- Papiamento orthography
- Polish orthography
- Portuguese orthography
- Scottish Gaelic orthography
- Sicilian orthography
- Silesian orthography
- Slovak orthography
- Spanish orthography
- Sranan Tongo phonology and orthography
- Swedish orthography
- Welsh orthography
References
Also known as Abecedario, Alphabet of Spanish, Spanish Alphabet, Spanish spelling, Writing system of Spanish.