The Encyclopedia of the Spanish Language and all its content is owned by Etecé Publishing House, an educational content company dedicated to delivering reliable, free online encyclopedias. We feature over 10,000 articles on topics spanning various areas of knowledge to foster learning and inspire curiosity in our readers.
The language tools made available in the Encyclopedia of the Spanish Language were developed in 1999 by Signum, one of the leading language engineering service companies devoted to the Spanish language.
Signum Co. Ltd. began operations in 1989, offering translation and localization services for Apple Computer, Autodesk, Aldus, and Software Publishing Corporation, among other major companies. From 1994 onward, the company concentrated its efforts on research and development in the field of computational linguistics, releasing Ortógrafo in 1996, which came to be the most advanced and comprehensive spell checker in Spanish.
In 1998, Signum licensed its spell checker, thesaurus, and hyphenator to Microsoft Corporation to be integrated into Microsoft Office 2000 and later versions.
In 2022, Etecé decided to take up and revamp the project. Thus, the Encyclopedia of the Spanish Language was born, the largest language and literature encyclopedia in Spanish, featuring content created and peer-reviewed by subject-matter experts, and made available along with the various language tools developed by Signum completely free of charge.
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We strive to make the Encyclopedia of the Spanish Language a trusted reference source for language, literature, and grammar topics. To that end, we constantly enhance and expand our language tools, as well as the articles contained in our website.
As in every project we do, we commit ourselves to delivering the most complete and reliable information on different topics of interest to inspire readers. We provide rigorous research articles in line with the trends of the digital world for everyone seeking simple explanations about the most wide-ranging language-related topics.
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