German orthography | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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German orthography


00:00:33 1 Alphabet
00:00:50 1.1 Basic alphabet
00:01:07 1.2 Special letters
00:02:06 2 Use of special letters
00:02:16 2.1 Umlaut diacritic usage
00:06:00 2.2 Sharp s
00:09:20 2.3 Long s
00:09:50 2.4 Sorting
00:10:10 2.5 Person names with special characters
00:12:43 3 Features of German spelling
00:14:09 3.1 Spelling of nouns
00:14:18 3.2 Vowel length
00:15:15 3.3 Double or triple consonants
00:18:48 3.4 Typical letters
00:20:45 3.5 Foreign words
00:22:57 4 Grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences
00:26:49 4.1 Consonants
00:27:30 4.2 Vowels
00:31:00 4.2.1 Short vowels
00:31:09 4.2.2 Long vowels
00:32:30 4.2.3 Diphthongs
00:33:32 5 History of German orthography
00:33:47 5.1 Middle Ages
00:33:57 5.2 Early modern period
00:35:54 5.3 19th century and early 20th century
00:37:33 5.4 German spelling reform of 1996
00:40:16 6 See also
00:41:31 7 Footnotes
00:42:02 undefined



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German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic. However, it shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not generally the case.
Today, German orthography is regulated by the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung (Council for German Orthography), composed of representatives from most German-speaking countries.