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The German word Dachshund is pronounced [ˈdaks.hʊnt] ⓘ. The pronunciation varies in English: variations of the first and second syllables include / ˈ d ɑː k s-/, / ˈ d æ k s-/ and /-h ʊ n t /, /-h ʊ n d /, /-ən d /. It may be incorrectly pronounced as / ˈ d æ ʃ-/ hound by some English speakers.
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.
Waldi (German pronunciation:) was the first official Olympic mascot, created for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was a dachshund , a popular breed of dog from Germany . The course of the marathon was designed to incorporate the Waldi design, and during the construction phase of the 1972 Olympic stadium and village, Waldi was used in ...
While the spelling of German is officially standardised by an international organisation (the Council for German Orthography) the pronunciation has no official standard and relies on a de facto standard documented in reference works such as Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch (German Pronunciation Dictionary) by Eva-Maria Krech et al., [1] Duden 6 ...
German has four special letters; three are vowels accented with an umlaut sign ( ä, ö, ü ) and one is derived from a ligature of ſ and z ( ß ; called Eszett "ess-zed/zee" or scharfes S "sharp s").
The Duden (German pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] [2] is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022. [3] The Duden is updated regularly with new editions appearing every four or five years.
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.
At Vorarlberg, we currently use the German pronunciation (stress on the first syllable), and I think we should use the Austrian one (stress on the second syllable), but mention the German pronunciation somewhere (it looks more natural for most German speakers, including those with German as an additional language; the stress on the second ...