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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. Stress in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    All Spanish words have at least one stressed syllable when the words are used in isolation. The word para can be a verb (the singular pronoun form of "stop") or a preposition (in order to, for). When words are used in a phrase, the stress may be dropped depending on the part of speech. Para el coche can mean "stop the car" if the stress remains ...

  4. É - Wikipedia

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    Latin letter E with acute. É or é (e-acute) is a letter of the Latin alphabet.In English, it is used for loanwords (such as French résumé), romanization (Japanese Pokémon) (Balinese Dénpasar, Buléléng) or occasionally as a pronunciation aid in poetry, to indicate stress on an unusual syllable.

  5. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    In open syllables, e.g. in the word dedo [ˈdeðo] 'finger' In closed syllables when before /m, n, t, θ, s/, e.g. in the word Valencia [ba̠ˈlenθja̠] 'Valencia' The open allophone is phonetically open-mid , and appears: In open syllables when in contact with /r/, e.g. in the words guerra [ˈɡɛra̠] 'war' and reto [ˈrɛto] 'challenge'

  6. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    Print This Now. Windows accents. Adding accents to letters in Windows is as easy as 123. Whether you’re always talking about Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, or Red Sox catcher Christian ...

  7. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...

  8. Does your name have an accent? Not in California, where they ...

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    A California Assembly bill would allow the use of diacritical marks like accents in government documents, not allowed since 1986's "English only" law which many say targeted Latinos.

  9. José - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Following the 1910 revolution, the Portuguese spelling was modernized. The first reform of Portuguese orthography of 1911 elided the final mute consonants ph and th from Biblical anthroponyms and toponyms (e.g. Joseph, Nazareth) and replaced them with the diacritic on the final é , indicating the stress vowel (e.g. José, Nazaré).