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Spanish written with French/English logic

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Spanish spelling reform following English and French logic:

-monosyllabic particles that lost their final consonants from Latin are written with them

no > non, sí > sic, y > et, o > ot

-writting medieval hiatuses

reina > reína, ver > veer, ser > seer, vio > vío

-ph/th/ch from Greek loans are kept

cristo > christo, teatro > theatro, -filia > -philia

-write lost coda p from Latin

eso > epso, siete > siepte, yeso > yepso

-writting etymological f- to differentiate from Latin h

hijo > fijo, hambre > fambre, hacer > facer

-write instances of -sc- in Latin

peces > pesces, crecer > crescer

-not writing epenthetic e-

escuela > schuela, espalda > spalda

-endings -ción/-cía written as -tión/-tía

eloquencia > eloqüentia, nación > natión

-words with qu in Latin that are still pronounced as /kw/ are written as qü

cuatro > qüatro, cuestión > qüestión

-write double consonants from Latin

copa > coppa, gato > gatto, vaca > vacca

-write /ɲ/ from -nn-/-mn-/-ni- as ñ but from -gn- as such

puño > pugno, tamaño > tamagno

Posted Aug 21, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

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