Spanish Speakers: "k" replacing "c" or "qu". Language evolution on involution?
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K is actually a very rare letter is Spanish and is oficially used in very few words, all of foreign origin (kilo, poker...) \n\nOn the other hand, it is a very common word in the Basque language (Euskera). In the 1980s, young people from left-wing groups supporting Basque separatism started using the "very Basque" K when spelling Spanish words, most notably in the phrase "mili kaka" (which rougly translates as "conscription is crap"). So using K instead of C became  a form of rebelliousness. Besides, music groups such as "Soziedad Alkoholika" or "Kortatu", both from the Basque Country, contributed to spread this new spelling.\n\nIn the 1990s, the new usage of K spread to young people who didn't actually care about the Basque Country, but just wanted to look rebellious or cool.\n\nNowadays, K is used instead of C or QU by most Spanish teenagers when sending SMS or chatting. It is simply trendy, but officially, this usage is still incorrect.
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Question and Answer in Spanish.
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It might sound like a lisp, but it's actually a different consonant.\n\nSpeakers of Spanish in the Americas use an "s" sound for words that are spelled with "z", but some people from Spain use a sound like the English "th" in the same situation.  Therefore, a Spanish-speaker from Mexico might say "corazon" as "cor-a-son" and a Spanish-speaker from Spain might say "cor-a-thon".  This isn't a lisp; it's just a difference between the dialects of Spanish.
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"Casta" in Italian is pronounciated like /'Kasta/, as you see it written. In Italian language the letter "C" is pronounciated always as /k/ when is before vowals "a","u" and "o"( as in the Italian words "caro"=dear, "casa"= house, "colore"=colour," cucina"= kitchen).\nHope that is of help.\nHave a great time!
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As a Chilean, I've been told many time we speak very fast - especially the common person - forget the celebrities and government officials, they do speak correctly.\n\nIn order to have a fast pace language Chilenos do some shortcuts.  With Spanish words that end in -ado and -ido, we tend to remove the -d and and simply say -ao, like in cansado, it becomes cansao. The accent alwasy falling on the last sylabal;\n\ntumbado - tumbao\nrobado - robao\ncomido - comio\nvivido - vivio\n\nI have also noticed that Chileans tend to have a very short if not aspirated -s sound.  In the word vestido (dress), we tend to barely pronounce the -s.  We know it's present but not fully pronounced, thus I tend to write in chat rooms with an ' (apostrophe) when this silent -s sound is present; ve'tio.\n\nAnother strange thing we tend to do is conjugate the tu form of the verb using the vosotros conjugation but without the -s.\n\ntu estás\nvosotros estáis\nChile = tu estái\n\nAnd like the Argentines, we use the "vos" pronoun.  But like mentioned above without the full -s sound, thus vo' is used.  Normally vo' is used when giving an order, commend, or suggestions, we tend to reverse this pronoun for when we're mad - kinda makes our thoughts be clearly understood.\n\nThere are more little things Chileans do, but I would have to write a book.
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ok..at first..in italian the "C" before a "I" or a "E"...say [chee]...while the "C" before a "A" or a "O" or a "U"..say [k]..so "RICCI" say [ree cchee] (with 2 chee)....bye
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Spanish is easier than French or English.
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Spelling and pronounciation.
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1. "r" is soft, and "rr" is hard. And yes, they really sound different. (eg  pero = but, perro = dog; caro = expensive, carro = car)\n2. it's pronounce like the "g" in general or like "y" \n3. j always sounds like "h" (a little harder though) in hello.\n   ga, go gu sounds the same as in english. ge, gi sonds like j in spanish, like "h" in english.\n   ch always sounds like ch in cheese.\n4. there aren't any spanish native words beggining with "w", but it sounds like "gu"\n5. therre's no difference in pronunciation between "v" and "b" in spanish, they sound like "b" in english
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Note that "x" ONLY sounds like "z" at the beginning of words, and only words of a certain origin.  Specifically, they are words are ALL words derived Greek, in which they were spelled with the Greek letter called "xi" --which is pronounced "ksee" .\n\nBut over time the sound of the English word changed, but the spelling did not.  And this sort of change, dropping the first part of a consonants cluster ('ks') that we find difficult to say at the beginning of a word in modern English is not without parallel.   Another example: "knight" dropw the "k" sound while keeping the historical spelling (on the other hand, Germans still pronounce this sound in the word's German relative, "Knecht")
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Sound change is a natural part of language change.  For example, you can also ask, "Why is English the only Germanic language that has a 'th' sound?"  (Answer: an older version of German got it from Semitic languages.  It went into English during this period, and then disappeared from modern German later.)  So my guess is that the sound you are talking about simply disappeared from Spanish through a process of language change, but I don't think it was intentional or teleological on the part of Spanish speakers.  (This means I don't buy the Spanish king speaking with a lisp answer.)\n\nIf you want a very specific answer to this question, I don't think you'll find it on Yahoo! Answers.  I suggest you contact a university professor, probably a linguist, who works specifically with historical linguistics and the history of Spanish phonology.  If absolutely necessary, I could probably locate a book or something for you.
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Okay...\n\nSo if they speak spanish, then this changes the rules???
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Because there are some Spanish people. If it automatically went to English it -might- be troublesome.
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Onomastics: The study of the origins and forms of proper names.
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Spanish - a huge percentage of the world's population speaks Spanish.  Then French.
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I live in Spain and find it difficult to accept the Tourists that come here and try pronouncing Spanish correctly, its so annoying, I am English but lived here for over 4 years and have a good knowledge of the Spanish language, I'm not perfectly fluent yet, but I am fairly good,  I do at least know how to pronounce Spanish correctly.  So I know what you mean.
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By starting to correct the spelling of your name. do you think replacing c with k is cool? go back to ancient times boy.