Languages are a living thing and therefore continue to evolve. Did you know that every year new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary? The study of languages and their development is fascinating.
But, orthography is particularly interesting because orthographic systems whether alphabetic, logographic or syllabic have been purposely invented by humans to communicate spoken language in graphic form.
In this sense, writing in Spanish without the appropriate accents and punctuation marks would make a poor and unfinished visual representation of this beautiful Romance language.
However, below you will find a list containing the most common options. It is less complicated than it sounds. How to use it: Hold down the Alt key right or left and press the letter with an accent. For capitals, hold down the Shift key and the Alt key and press the letter with an accent. For symbols, hold down the Alt key and press the letter with the symbol. For quotation marks, hold down the Shift key, press the quotation marks key and press the space bar.
For the Euro sign, hold down the Alt key and press the Dollar sign key. Toggle navigation SpanishNewYork. This first set is for newer computers and may only work in Microsoft Office. Then, release both keys and type the letter that you want to accent. On many keyboards, you can also simply hold down the letter you want to accent.
This will cause a little box with letter choices to pop up, and you can select which letter you want. Another way to type Spanish letters and punctuation marks is to use character codes. Each character in your computer has a code made up of the Alt key and a three-digit number, all of which are listed below. To type the numbers, you must use the numeric keypad on the right side of your keyboard, not the number keys on the top row.
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