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For example, the Latin word for "year" is "annus" which eventually became "año" in Spanish. Today, the letter Ñ appears in more than 17,700 Spanish words.

When you put the different sounds together, they make words. In Spanish most letters of the alphabet sound the same as in English with some exceptions. j - sound in back of throat ...

MEXICO CITY The Royal Spanish Academy is lopping two letters off the Spanish alphabet, reducing it to 27. Out go “ch” and “ll,” along with lots of annoying accents and hyphens.

An example of what this meant is that the Latin word for year, annus, became año in Spanish. Ñ was eventually officially entered into the Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary in 1803, and as of ...

It appears in more than 17,7000 words in the Spanish language used by 586 million people and spoken as the official language in 20 countries. Its influence goes beyond the Spanish language ...