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  2. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    In the Breton language, it nasalises the preceding vowel, as in Jañ /ʒã/, which corresponds to the French name Jean and has the same pronunciation. It is used in a number of English terms of Spanish origin, such as jalapeño, piña colada, piñata, and El Niño. The Spanish word cañón, however, became naturalized as canyon.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Uzzi - Wikipedia

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    Uzzi ben Sashai was the 3rd Samaritan High Priest according to Samaritan Genealogical Records. [3] [4] He may be identical to the Jewish High Priest, as his predecessor Bukki also may have been, although the patronyms imply different fathers which might be a product of an adoption or levirate marriage or being two different individuals

  5. Puerto Ricans are pushing to make these unique slang words ...

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    Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.

  6. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    的士(dik1 si2, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation.) vs 出租車(chū zū chē, meaning cars for renting.), translated from Taxi. 巴士(baa1 si2, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation.) vs 公車(gōng chē, meaning public cars.), translated from Bus.

  7. Puerto Rico Slang - AOL

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    People in Puerto Rico love creating new slang so much that getting colloquialisms into the Diccionario Real de la Academia Espa–ola, or the Royal Spanish Academy's Dictionary, is practically a ...

  8. Help:IPA/Spanish - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; to smarten up,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang.