According to designer José de la O, the Spanish alphabet is too crowded. Letters like B and V and S and Z are hard to tell apart when spoken out loud, which makes for a language that's "confusing ...

The red-headed stepchild of our alphabet, “J” was only introduced in standardized spelling in the 15th century by the Spanish and only appeared consistently in print around 1640. K ...

The creation of the letter dates back to the 12th century, and Ñ now appears in more than 17,700 Spanish words. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the Spanish Ñ. Google The Google Doodle itself ...

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.

On the eve of Justin Allen's live reading to celebrate his debut book, Language Arts (2024), published by Wendy's Subway, we gathered over tea at a boutique café on New York's Lower East Side. Just a ...

10 revealing facts about Spanish. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Spanish with audio Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful ...

The Ñ is an offshoot of the letter N and appears next to it in the Spanish alphabet. But it didn't exist until around the 12th century, when scribes copying documents by hand created a shortcut ...

The Spanish alphabet includes the letter “x,” and early Catalan involved several pronunciations of it depending on context, including a pronunciation akin to the modern “sh.” ...

After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed off on the new, much shorter set ...

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.