Spanish language

Writing system

Spanish is written using the Latin alphabet, with a few special letters: vowels with an acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú); u with diaeresis (ü); and n with tilde (ñ). Since 1990, the digraphs ch, ll, and rr were considered pairs of common letters for dictionary sorting purposes. Before then, each of this pairs was considered a letter on its own and had an order in the alphabet. (i.e.: a,b,c,ch,d and k,l,ll,m,n)

Related Topics:
Latin alphabet - Acute accent - Diaeresis - ü - ñ

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Spanish precedes exclamatory and interrogative clauses with inverted question and exclamation marks, and unequivocally marks stress through a series of orthographic rules.

Related Topics:
Question - Exclamation marks - Stress

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Spanish orthography is such that every speaker can guess the pronunciation (adapted for accent) from the written form.

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