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The names of numbers in the upper teens and the twenties were originally written as three words (e.g. diez y seis, veinte y nueve), but nowadays they are spelled as a single word (e.g. dieciséis, veintinueve). For the numbers from 21 to 29, the "fused" forms are accepted since 1803 [48] and became common over the second half of the 19th ...
List of languages Language Language family Phonemes Notes Ref Total Consonants Vowels, [clarification needed] tones and stress Arabic: Afroasiatic: 40: 28 10 + (2) Number of phonemes in Modern Standard Arabic.
The veintiquatro name apparently derived from the original number (24) of members of a town council, but this number varied with time and location. The duties of veintiquatros included deciding and collecting local taxes, regulating and inspecting markets, shipping, the relief of poverty, and inspecting prisons.
The Oxford English Dictionary derives the numero sign from Latin numero, the ablative form of numerus ("number", with the ablative denotations of "by the number, with the number"). In Romance languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g. Italian numero, French numéro, and Portuguese and Spanish ...
An example for calling telephones in the city of Tehran is as follows: xxxx xxxx (within Tehran, via a landline) 021 xxxx xxxx (Outside Tehran, or via a cellphone) +98 21 xxxx xxxx (outside Iran) An example for mobile numbers is as follows: 09xx xxx xxxx (in Iran) +98 9xx xxx xxxx (outside Iran)
Telemundo is an American Spanish-language broadcast television television network owned by NBCUniversal which was launched in 1984 under the name NetSpan. As of June 2018 [update] , the network currently has 28 owned-and-operated stations and current affiliation agreements with 66 other television stations. [ 1 ]
A measure of 100 by 100 varas (Spanish) is almost 7000 square meters, and is known traditionally throughout Spain and Latin America as a manzana (i.e., a "city block"). As well, lumber is still measured in Costa Rica using a system based on 4 vara, or 11 feet, for both round and square wood.
The cardinal numbers are very similar in Spanish and Portuguese, but there are differences of usage in numbers one and two. Spanish has different words for the masculine singular indefinite article ('a, an') and the numeral 'one', thus un capítulo 'a chapter', but capítulo uno 'chapter one'.