''Êttandâ pal andalûh'' ("Standard for Andalusian", EPA; in standard

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

) is a proposed

standardized Standardization (American English) or standardisation (British English) is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organiza ...

orthographic system for

Andalusian Spanish The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (, , ) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar. They include perhaps the most distinct of the southern variants of peninsular Spanish, differing in many respects from northern varieties in a number ...

. It is one of several orthographies proposed as part of the

Andalusian language movement A social movement aiming to recognize Andalusian Spanish as an independent language separate from Spanish language, Spanish exists. Prominent advocate groups and organizations include the Society for the Study of Andalusian (ZEA), ''Er Prinçipit ...

Characteristics

EPA differs from standard

Spanish orthography Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses the Latin script. The spelling is fairly phonemic orthography, phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English orthography, Engl ...

in reflecting the

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

of the Andalusian dialect. Notable differences include: * is represented with <ç> before and * �is always represented as , even where standard Spanish orthography uses a * ͡ʃis represented with (as in Catalan) * Geminated consonants, which occur in Andalusian Spanish following a
syllable ending A syllable is a basic unit of organization within a sequence of speech sounds, such as within a word, typically defined by linguists as a ''nucleus'' (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (''margins'', which are ...
in a dropped are represented with a doubled consonant * Vowels immediately preceding a dropped are marked with a
circumflex The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of ...
, and an is added at the end of the word * All instances of that are not pronounced in standard Spanish are removed

Example
Article 1 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the Human rights, rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN Drafting of the Universal D ...
in EPA, standard Spanish, and
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...
:

References
{{Reflist Indo-European Latin-script orthographies Andalusian Spanish Andalusian nationalism Spelling reform