City Pedia Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties

    Spanish is a language with a "T–V distinction" in the second person, meaning that there are different pronouns corresponding to "you" which express different degrees of formality. In most varieties, there are two degrees, namely "formal" and "familiar" (the latter is also called "informal").

  3. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology

    Syllable structure. Spanish syllable structure consists of an optional syllable onset, consisting of one or two consonants; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, consisting of one or two consonants. [ 102]

  4. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs

    Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [a]) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.

  5. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_orthography

    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 ...

  6. Ch (digraph) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)

    Czech. In Czech, the letter ch is a digraph consisting of the sequence of Latin alphabet graphemes C and H, however it is a single phoneme (pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative [x]) and represents a single entity in Czech collation order, inserted between H and I. In capitalized form, Ch is used at the beginning of a sentence ( Chechtal se.

  7. Spanish language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language

    Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...

  8. Sephardi Hebrew - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Hebrew

    Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew; Hebrew: עברית ספרדית, romanized : Ivrit Sefardit, Ladino: Ebreo de los Sefaradim) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jews. Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Judeo-Arabic ...

  9. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Spanish...

    The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. [ 1]