Madrid, December 29 (EFE) .- The spelling “Java Sea” with tiny eme is appropriate to refer to the sea where you are looking for missing plane Malaysian latter says Urgent Spanish Foundation, promoted by EFE and BBVA.
In the media may find phrases like “A plane Malaysian budget airline AirAsia cost disappeared Sunday over the Java Sea” or “Aerial authorities lost contact with the device while flying over the Java Sea. “
According to the” Spelling of the Spanish tongue “,” proper names of geographical features, both natural and artificial, are written with capital letters but not common nouns generic accompanying (…), to be written in lower case, ‘the Pacific’, ‘the Mediterranean’, ‘Lake Titicaca’ … “and, in this case, in the previous examples, “the Java Sea.”
This same work indicates that the generic noun is capitalized only if an inherent part of the geographical name, as, inter alia, on ” Rio de la Plata “,” Cape Verde “or” Rocky Mountains “.
Moreover, in some related news it is mentioning the” island of Celebes, “which is the traditional name in Spanish of this island, whose vernacular form is “Sulawesi”, pronounced /sulabési/.
La Fundéu BBVA (www.fundeu.es), working in consultation with the Royal Spanish Academy, whose main objective is the proper use of Spanish in the media, has also the collaboration of the Cervantes Institute, the San Millán, Accenture, Gómez-Acebo & amp Foundation; Pombo, CELER Solutions, Hermes Translations, Linguaserve and Abengoa. EFE
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