On 9/1/2011 11:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I believe that the deprecation of the digraphs as separate letters
occurred as the telephone became widely used in Spain, and the
telephone company demanded an official proclamation from whatever
Ministry is responsible for culture that it was OK to treat the
digraphs as two letters (specifically, to collate them that way), so
that they could use the programs that came with the OS.
The main 'standards body' for Spanish is the Real Academia Española in
Madrid, which works with the 21 other members of the Asociación de
Academias de la Lengua Española.
wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Real_Academia_Española
.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Association_of_Spanish_Language_Academies
While it has apparently been criticized as 'conservative' (which is well
ought to be), it has been rather progressive in promoting changes such
as 'ph' to 'f' (fisica, fone) and dropping silent 'p' in leading 'psi'
(sicologia) and silent 's' in leading 'sci' (ciencia).
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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