¿dos acentos?

[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".