Spanish Extended Alphabet
TIL the Spanish alphabet these days has 27 letters, not the 30 that I was taught in college years ago: 'll', 'rr', and 'ch' are no longer considered letters
How many letters are in your language's alphabet?
What is the trickiest letter to pronounce for you in Spanish alphabet? I know most of you will say doble/inicial erre but for me it is β pronunciation of b/v.
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Since my Spanish conjugation tables were popular, I decided to also share my Spanish alphabet guide on Memrise. However, I do have to explain a few things.
First, this isn't a guide to the letters as symbols. There are only 27 letter symbols in Spanish, whereas there are 46 flashcards in my Memrise. This is because my guide is what I call an extended alphabet: it includes every possible unique combination of letters.
For example, ci is considered separate from c because ci isn't ki, but si (or thi in Spain). You can't break down ci into c + i without a note on the exception. It's like how th isn't t + h, but a different unit entirely. However, fe can be split into f + e because that is the exact sound it makes. F won't make any other sound next to the letter e.
Essentially, instead of memorizing 27 letters and figuring out all the exceptions, you can memorize 46 letters and digraphs and learn no exceptions. This approach might not work for everyone, but I'd still like to throw it out there.
Note: A letter by itself (namely, b, d, g, and r) makes a soft sound by default in my system. It is hardened by the presence of another letter or a space.
Note 2: "." means a space, which means that the letter makes that sound when preceded or followed by a space. For example, .b shows that b makes the hard b sound instead of the soft one.
Note 3: This guide uses Castillian Spanish. Other dialects may have to use different sounds.
Note 4: This guide only tells you how letters and digraphs are pronounced in Spanish. It doesn't tell you which one to use :(
Note 5: If you see any errors, please inform me. I'm not native. I just read a bunch on the Spanish alphabet.
https://app.memrise.com/course/6098780/spanish-pronunciation/
Here is the extended alphabet in IPA (omitted if the letter and the IPA symbol are the same)
Spanish Alphabet: a, b = β, _b = b, mb, c = k, ce = θe, ch = tʃ, ci = θi, d = ð, _d = d, ld, nd, e, f, g = ɣ, _g = g, ge = xe, gi = xi, gue = ɣe, _gue = ge, gui = ɣi, _gui = gi, h = ø, i, j = x, k, l, ll = j, m, n, nv = mb, ñ = ɲ, o, p, qu = k, r = ɾ, _r = r, rr = r, s, t, u, v = β , _v = b, w = w, x = ks, y = j, z = θ