ACADEMIC INNOVATIONS IN THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF FOREIGN WORDS IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

Nowdays, the foreign words are an expanding group in the Spanish language. In fact, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the Ortografía de la lengua española and Las normas académicas: últimos cambios have studied and classified this group of words. The aim of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies has been to defend the unity of the Spanish language in the Spanish-speaking areas. Therefore, most of these foreign words are adapted to the Spanish orthography and pronunciation. Sometimes, these adaptations are different between Spain and America, but the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies show all the possibilities. Therefore, in this article we study the orthographic innovations and the linguistic situation of these foreign words in the Spanish language.