MADRID, Spain. (EFE) .- The years are written without periods, commas or space between the figure marks indicating thousands and hundreds, reminds the Foundation of Urgent Spanish, promoted by the EFE Agency and BBVA.
In the media may be phrases like “There is a contract signed until June 2016″, “The first of January 2016 will assume his new mandate” or “take this opportunity to congratulate the holidays and wish you an excellent 2016.”
According to the “Spelling of the Spanish tongue”, the numbers designating the years it never period, comma or space is used between the units of thousands and of hundreds.
A different question is that number does not express a year in itself, but a number of years, in which case it is possible to insert a thin space (“40,000 years ago”), but not the point or the comma, so that the following spellings would not be appropriate “. 40.000 years ago” or “40,000 years ago” or
So in the initial examples right thing would have been to write “There is a contract signed until June 2016″, “The one January 2016 will assume his new mandate “and” take this opportunity to congratulate the holidays and wish you an excellent 2016. “
The Fundéu BBVA (www.fundeu.es), working in consultation with the Royal Spanish Academy whose main objective is the correct 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.
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