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Spanish also treats multiple-letters as letters in their own right, doesn't it? And Dutch with ij.
by mbg721 3y ago
Spanish also treats multiple-letters as letters in their own right, doesn't it? And Dutch with ij.
- thenewwazoo 3y agoNot really, depending on who you ask. In the 90s, the RAE declared that ‘ll’ and ‘ch’ were no longer letters, but they’re still taught as letters in many places. ‘rr’ was never a letter in its own right, but many people consider it to be, as a kind of parallel to ‘ll’ and ‘ch’.
- mbg721 3y agoThat's good info to learn beyond the strips of letters at the tops of classrooms, thanks!
- tmtvl 3y agoTreating ij as a single letter in Dutch makes no sense, unless one also treats au, ei*, eu, ou, and ui as single letters. And possibly sch as well. * especially ei as it's the same sound: eis (demand) and ijs (ice) are homonyms.