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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
This is because the names of the letters, numbers, and symbols can be spelled out in normal English orthography in a way that makes the pronunciation unambiguous across dialects. For example, Dead on arrival (DOA) may be better explained as "(an initialism: D-O-A )" rather than as the equally correct but less accessible / ˌ d iː ˌ oʊ ˈ eɪ / .
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According to the modern and official standard, it has 23 letters and 6 digraphs. The extraneous letters j , k , w and y are sporadically found in foreign words, abbreviations and international symbols. As in Portuguese and unlike in Spanish, Galician letter names are of masculine grammatical gender. [1]
The z in the Spanish word chorizo is sometimes realized as / t s / by English speakers, reflecting more closely the pronunciation of the double letter zz in Italian and Italian loanwords in English. This is not the pronunciation of present-day Spanish, however. Rather, the z in chorizo represents or (depending on dialect) in Spanish.
Thaub or Thawb (officially, Kharāb ath Thawb, also Romanized as H̱arâb et-Taub) is a city in Yemen 16°03′N 43°53′E / 16.050°N 43.883°E / 16.050; References
Consonants and combinations of consonant letters Spelling Main values (IPA) Examples Other values (IPA) Examples Cat. (IEC) Va. (AVL) Cat. (IEC) Va. (AVL) b: initially and medially (elsewhere)