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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. Ch (digraph) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil. Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. Tamil loanwords in other languages. Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil. Tatsama. List of loanwords in Thai. List of replaced loanwords in Turkish. Categories: Lists of words.

  5. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million words in the corpus, about one-third (~6,750,000 words) come from transcripts of spoken Spanish: conversations, interviews, lectures, sermons, press conferences, sports broadcasts, and so on. Among the written sources are novels, plays, short stories, letters, essays, newspapers, and the ...

  6. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish, chaparro loosely meaning small evergreen oak, from Basque txapar, "small, short". chaps. from Mexican Spanish chaparreras, leg protectors for riding through chaparral. chayote. from Spanish, literally: "squash", from Nahuatl chayotl meaning "spiny squash".

  7. List of Spanish words of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    List of Spanish words of Germanic origin. This is a list of some Spanish words of Germanic origin. The list includes words from Visigothic, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Swedish, English, and finally, words which come from Germanic with the specific ...

  8. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    The score of 20 for a K is the highest known point value for any letter in any Scrabble score distribution worldwide. The fourth distribution, which uses U instead of V, and includes Y, is as follows: [ 34 ] 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×10, A ×9, I ×9, S ×9, T ×9, U ×9. 2 points: M ×6, N ×6, O ×6, R ×6.

  9. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear). Some of these words have alternate ...