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  and so on.

The second distinguishing point is some special pairs of vowel and consonant. For example,

Hiragana character for combination of 'T' and 'I' is pronounced like 'CHI'.

  TI or CHI, as described above,

  TU or TSU,

  SI or SHI,

  HU or FU,

  WO or O,

  TYA or CHA, and

  N or M.

5.2 Spanish language / used in Spain, most of America and Equatorial

Guinea

Section written by Eusebio C Rufian Zilbermann

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Spanish is one of the official languages in Spain, the official language in most of the countries

in the American continent and the official language in Equatorial Guinea. It is spoken in many

other regions where it is not the official language. Other official languages in Spain are Galician,

Catalan and Basque. These other languages each have their own specific issues with regards to

Localization. They are not described in this section of the document.

The Spanish Language derives from the variation spoken in the Castille region. The term Castillian

is sometimes used to refer to the Spanish language (particularly when an author wants to stress

the fact that there are other languages spoken in Spain). Both Castillian and Spanish language

refer to the same language, they are not different things.

5.2.1 Characters used in Spanish

Spanish uses a Latin alphabet. The numerical characters used in Spanish are the Arabic numerals.

The character that distinguishes Spanish from other Latin alphabets is the N ('N' with tilde), which

exists in uppercase and lowercase versions. Vowels in Spanish may have a mark (the accent)

on top of them to indicate intensity intonation. This accent is required for orthography (written