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Old March 16, 2010, 02:39 PM
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K and W are found in loanwords, true, but are considered part of the Spanish alphabet. Kilómetro is one Spanish word that contains a 'k'. It doesn't exist in English in that form. There are several others. Wáter, whisky, and waterpolo are all Spanish words. They don't exist in those forms in English.

"Las veintinueve letras del alfabeto español son: a, b, c, ch, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, ll, m, n, ñ, o, p, q, r, s, t u, v, w x, y, z.
Los dígrafos ch y ll son considerados letras del alfabeto, pero por un acuerdo de la Asociación de las Academias de la Lengua Española, celebrado en 1994, se decidió que, exclusivamente para la ordenación alfabética, la ch y la ll no se consideran letras independientes. El dígrafo rr nunca fue considerado una letra del abecedario español."