Spanish Language

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Spanish language

Spanish: Official language of Spain and most Latin American countries.

Number of Spanish Speakers: Over 330 million in 19 countries.

Spanish Alphabet: El alfabeto español has 30 letters, 26 of them in English alphabet. The letters B, C, V, W, and Z are pronounced differently in Spain and Latin America.

Spanish Dialects: Castilian accepted as standard dialect.

Spanish Orthography: There are upside down question and exclamation marks in Spanish. Words fall into three categories according to the way they are pronounced: agudas, graves, esdrújulas.

Spanish Language History: Oldest written Spanish goes back to the 10th century A.D. Hispano-Romance period (5th - 10th century), old Spanish period (10th - mid 13th century), middle Spanish period (mid 13th - end 15th century), classical Spanish period (1500-1650), and the Modern period.

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Spanish Language Enriched by: Spanish language, as a Latin language, has been enriched by Arabic, French, and Italian.

Unique Features of Spanish: There are two forms of the verb “to be”: estar, meaning a relatively temporary state, and ser, meaning a relatively permanent condition.

Real Academia Española is the arbiter of what is right in Spanish language.

Spanish language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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