¿dos acentos?

[bobjenkins]

¡Che!

Se puede tener dos acentos en una palabra?

"....como él le enseñó"



gracias

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

No hay dos acentos, sino uno, en la "ó". La "ñ" es una letra por sí misma, no una "n" modificada.

[Jessica]

right, Spanish words have only one accent (right?)

[bobjenkins]

Mienstras hablamos sobre (about?) acentos, ¿hay más que un acento en español? yo sé "ó"

[irmamar]

Los acentos son todos cerrados (á, é, í, ó, ú), no existen en español acentos abiertos como en francés o en catalán (à, è, etc.).

[Tomisimo]

The only diacritical marks used in Spanish are á, é, í, ó, ú, and ü. (and their capitalized counterparts). ñ or Ñ is considered a separate letter.

[bobjenkins]

!Bien! ¡Un acento hará mi trabajo fácil!

¿Cómo es este acento, "Barça"?

[tacuba]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

!Bien! ¡Un acento hará mi trabajo fácil!

¿Cómo es este acento, "Barça"?

From Wikipedia:

It represents the "soft" sound /s/ where a "c" would normally represent the "hard" sound /k/ (before "a", "o", "u", or at the end of a word), in the following languages:

• Catalan. Known as ce trencada (that is, "broken C") in this language. Some examples of words with "c"-cedilla are: torçut "twisted", ço "this", braç "arm", falç "sickle", voraç "voracious", caçar "to hunt", llançar "to throw". A well-known word with this character is Barça, a common Catalan diminutive for the c one of Barcelona's football teams, also used across the world, including by the Spanish-language media.

[Elaina]

OMG! That is great. I learned something new today!

¡Gracias!


Little things make me happy.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@bobjenkins: "Barça" no es una palabra en español, sino en catalán. La c-cedilla ("ç") no existe en español.

Not every "modification" to a letter is considered an "acento", and as David said, there are only five cases of written accents in Spanish: á, é, í, ó, ú.
They obey strict rules to mark the tonic syllable when it's needed.

[literacola]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@bobjenkins: "Barça" no es una palabra en español, sino en catalán. La c-cedilla ("ç") no existe en español.

Not every "modification" to a letter is considered an "acento", and as David said, there are only five cases of written accents in Spanish: á, é, í, ó, ú.
They obey strict rules to mark the tonic syllable when it's needed.

Don't forget ü.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by literacola

Don't forget ü.

Technically, the (´) is an acute accent mark. The (¨) is an umlaut, sometimes called a diaeresis or trema. They are both diacriticals. In some languages the tilde (~) is considered a diacritical, but in Spanish it is not. The ñ is considered a separate letter. The history of the ñ is interesting-- its use arose as an abbreviation of the double n (nn).

[bobjenkins]

¡AH! Es múy bien Yo pronouncía "Barça" /barka/ pero es /barsa/


gracias

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Technically, the (´) is an acute accent mark. The (¨) is an umlaut, sometimes called a diaeresis or trema. They are both diacriticals. In some languages the tilde (~) is considered a diacritical, but in Spanish it is not. The ñ is considered a separate letter. The history of the ñ is interesting-- its use arose as an abbreviation of the double n (nn).

Not many people know that!

Excellent point.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by literacola

Don't forget ü.

True, as David said they're both diacriticals.
Still, I never learnt the "diéresis" as an accent in Spanish: it is used to pronounce a letter that you normally wouldn't without it, while accents are used to stress syllables.


@David: thank you for the historical data... I had never thought about the origin of "ñ".