Why are Ch and LL not Spanish letters in their alphabet?
The double “RR” also used to be a letter. I’m not sure why, I mean first off you have to understand why Spanish included them as letters. The reason why these letters used to be official, was because originally the official Spanish “committee” if we want to call it that, wanted to represent every letter with every sound that is found in the Spanish language. So, the “ch” sound can only be formed when those two words are together, so they figured it would be a good idea to make it its own letter so that it could represent one of the sounds found in Spanish. Now, this was a long time ago, before globalization. Now of course we have words like “k” and “w” and sounds like “sh” that are not of Spanish origin, and yet Spanish people are exposed to these words and have to use them. The old Spanish alphabet was also inconsistent because the “r” at the beginning of the word, is pronounced like the “rr” and also the “ll” sound is pronounced like a “y” by most Spanish-speakers. So, that rule of t
