Mandarin, which topped the density list at .94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density .63, ripped along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82.

In Spanish-speaking countries it would have to have an accent — Fernández — otherwise the last syllable would have to be stressed. Finally, not all people in Latin America have Hispanic names.

They found that an average Spanish syllable conveys only a small quantity of infor­mation, contributing just a fragment to the overall meaning of a sentence.

Veronica Cuéllar-López, right, a kindergarten teacher at Quarry Trail Elementary School, works with Lilly Radillo on Spanish syllables in the dual-language immersion program earlier this month.

Babies start with simple vowel sounds — oohs and aahs. A mere months later, the cooing turns into babbling — “bababa” — showing off a newfound grasp of consonants. A new study has found ...

Similar information rates across languages, despite divergent speech rates Date: September 5, 2019 Source: CNRS Summary: Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that ...

Not Frisco but San Francisco. Caress each Spanish syllable, salute our Italian saint. Don't say Frisco and don't say San-Fran-Cis-Co. That's the way Easterners, like Larry King, pronounce it.

A kindergarten student works on a lesson to learn Spanish syllables in the dual-language immersion program at Quarry Trail Elementary School in Rocklin on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022.

Venezuelans are but the latest wave of migrants to invigorate American Spanish.

Interestingly, the languages that conveyed the least amount of information per syllable, like Spanish, Japanese, and French, tended to be spoken at a faster rate. This allowed these languages (apart ...