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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.