What is the Spanish alphabet?

Question

And I cant go to youtube

Answer 1

Hello, and welcome to the forum. Here's a link to a reference article on the subject.

Answer 2

In appreciation of you saying thanks for MacFadden's link, may I abreviate that list for you?

Spanish alphabet has 29 characters: the 26 you already know from English plus three letters that look like a combination of letters but are actually used together to form separate letters. ch, ll, ñ. (Think about the letter we call a double-u. You cannot throw out the w and use uu)

I learned them that way too and still think of them that way, but technically, the RAE removed che, elle and eñe from the alphabet sometime in the nineties. It is good to know for looking things up on older dictionaries, though. - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

Double check, m'lady, they rearranged the sequencing in the dictionary, but I do believe there are 29 recognized characters/letters. - LateToDinner, Sep 13, 2010

Dear Lord, on bended knee, let me be right because Mac always gets to be right. - LateToDinner, Sep 13, 2010

I double checked with the RAE and you're absolutely right. They are distinct letters. More distressingly, though, my textbook contains a blatant falsehood! The authors of Gramática para la composición will be receiving a letter on the matter. - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

It was the rr that I learned as a kid but apparently wasn't ever a real letter: "la rr no se haya considerado nunca una de las letras del alfabeto" (RAE). - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

I'm glad there's no committee of prominent English authors that gets together and changes the rules on us all the time. - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

Could you imagine them agreeing when to get together? Forget about deciding on anything! - LateToDinner, Sep 14, 2010

Answer 3

Here is a song that Jen found that is good for pronunciationlink text

It does have notes in the background about the dropped letters, but it contains all the sounds. - sanlee, Sep 13, 2010

Whoops, sorry I didn't see your note about you tube. - sanlee, Sep 13, 2010

That's okay Sandie .... I'll use that link, so thanks! - LateToDinner, Sep 14, 2010

You're welcome, Late! - sanlee, Sep 14, 2010

Answer 4

Thanks!

You're most welcome. I hope it helps you. - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

Answer 5

Abecedario español Artículo de la Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español.

Basado en el alfabeto latino, el alfabeto o abecedario español está formado desde 1803 (cuarta edición del Diccionario académico) por** 29 letras.**

La ch y la ll aun siendo dígrafos son también letras del abecedario por representar un sólo sonido, a diferencia del dígrafo rr que tiene el mismo sonido que la r incial.

En el X Congreso de la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española celebrado en 1994 se decidió, a petición de varios organismos internacionales, adoptar el orden alfabético latino universal integrando las palabras comenzadas por ch y ll en sus correspondientes lugares dentro de la c y la l, sin que dejaran por ello de ser letras del alfabeto, como comúnmente se cree.

Letras mayúsculas

A -- B -- C -- Ch -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- Ll -- M -- N -- Ñ -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Letras minúsculas

a -- b -- c -- ch -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- ll -- m -- n -- ñ -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- x -- y -- z

And, direct from the source, as this whole thing taught me to investigate all such questions: http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltConsulta?lema=alfabeto - MacFadden, Sep 13, 2010

Answer 6

Cool, thanks!