Spanish alphabet

When learning a language, we all start with the alphabet. It's a basic and standard set of letters used when writing. These letters also represent different sounds in that language. It's pretty easy to speak Spanish as it's phonetic. This means that once you memorize the sounds of different letters in the alphabet, you can easily read any word.

Spanish alphabet

In Spanish, the Spanish alphabet is called "abecedario." It consists of 27 letters.  

Below you will find all letters in Spanish alphabet:

The Spanish alphabet has changed over decades. In 2010, "ch" and "ll" was removed from the alphabet. To English speakers, there is now only one additional letter that doesn't appear in the English alphabet. It's "ñ". And while "k" and "w" are part of the alphabet, they only appear in loan words or words of foreign origin such as kilómetro, whisky, etc.

While in Latin American countries arounds the 60's, "rr" was considered to be a part of the alphabet, the Royal Spanish Academy never confirmed this. And nowadays, the letter "r" is pronounced "air-eh". 

There are five digraphs: ch (cheh), ll (eh-yeah), rr ( err-eh), gu, and qu. Acute accent and diacritical marks are also used on vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü). They are considered variants of plain vowel letters.

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It's easy to learn how to pronounce the Spanish letters as most of them only have one sound! Check out the video below:

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