Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs
While the Council for German Orthography considers ä, ö, ü, ß distinct letters, [4] disagreement on how to categorize and count them has led to a dispute over the exact number of letters the German alphabet has, the number ranging between 26 (considering special letters as variants of a, o, u, s ) and 30 (counting all special letters ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Alphabet: Lowercase: U+0061 a 97 ... Division sign: 0183 Letters: Lowercase. U+00F8 ø 248 0303 0270
The lower-case letter exists in many earlier encodings that covered European languages. In several ISO 8859 [c] and Windows [d] encodings it is at 0xDF, the value inherited by Unicode. In DOS code pages [e] it is at 0xE1. Mac OS encodings [f] put it at 0xA7. Some EBCDIC codes [g] put it at 0x59. The upper-case form was rarely, if ever, encoded ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Standard German on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The present-day German letter ß (German: Eszett or scharfes s; also used in Low German and historical Upper Sorbian orthographies) is generally considered to have originated in a ligature of ſz (which is supported by the fact that the second part of the ß grapheme usually resembles a Fraktur z: , hence ſ ; see ß for details), although in ...
Neo 2 has a total of six levels. The first two levels correspond to the German lowercase and uppercase letters and can be reached by switching as usual layouts. The third level can be reached via the Mod3, which under QWERTZ corresponds to the Caps Lock key and the # key, and contains common punctuation and special characters.
Sütterlin is based on older German handwriting, which is a handwriting form of the Blackletter scripts such as Fraktur and Schwabacher, the German print scripts used at the same time. It includes the long s (ſ) as well as several standard ligatures such as ff (f-f), ſt (ſ-t), st (s-t), and ß (ſ-z or ſ-s).