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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 ...
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 ...
The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ß , [3] (eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s'). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ , ſ , ſ , ſ .
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.
Alphabet: Lowercase: U+0061 a 97 ... Division sign: 0183 Letters: Lowercase. U+00F8 ø 248 ... Latin Small Letter Long S with high stroke German typography:
Ä in German Sign Language. A similar glyph, A with umlaut, appears in the German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of a (when short), resulting in (or for many speakers) in the case of the long and in the case of the short . In German, it is called Ä (pronounced ) or Umlaut-Ä [citation needed].
Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close-or open-mid front rounded vowels ⓘ or ⓘ.