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The three possible spelling variants of the same name (e.g. Müller/Mueller/Muller) in different documents sometimes lead to confusion, and the use of two different spellings within the same document may give persons unfamiliar with German orthography the impression that the document is a forgery.
Almost all German speakers consider the alphabet to have the 26 cardinal letters above and will name only those when asked to say the alphabet. [ citation needed ] The diacritic letters ä , ö and ü are used to indicate the presence of umlauts (frontalizations of back vowels).
Usage of the various names of association football vary among the countries and territories which use English as an official or de facto official language. The brief survey of usage below addresses places which have some level of autonomy in the sport and their own separate federation but are not actually independent countries: for example the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and ...
Fussball or Fußball (if the German letter ß is used) may refer to: Table football, also known as foosball, a custom-table game loosely based on association football with figures on rods representing the players; The German name for football (or soccer)
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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.
Most Alemannic dialects are not written very often, and thus do not have official spellings. For the sake of consistency, this guide uses the Swiss German spelling convention proposed by Dieth & Schmid-Cadalbert (1986). [1] See Bernese German phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of one of the Alemannic dialects.
The Bundesliga (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa] ⓘ; lit. ' Federal League '), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga ([ˌfuːsbal-]) or 1. Bundesliga ([ˌeːɐ̯stə-]), is a professional football league in Germany located at the top of the German football league system.
English /ɹ/ can be pronounced the same as in English, i.e. , or as the corresponding native German /r/ e.g. Rock [ʁɔk] or [rɔk]. German and Austrian speakers tend to be variably rhotic when using English loanwords. [citation needed] English /w/ is often replaced with German /v/ e.g. Whisk(e)y [ˈvɪskiː].