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"). They have their own names separate from the letters they are based on.
Das deutsche Alphabet ist eine Erweiterung des lateinischen Alphabets. Im heutigen standardisierten Gebrauch umfasst es die 26 Grund buchstaben des lateinischen Alphabets, die drei Umlaute (Ä, Ö, Ü) sowie das Eszett (ß) .
German (Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced i) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Western Europe and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
- 95 million (2014), L2 speakers: 80–85 million (2014)
In German, words starting with sch-(which spells the German phoneme /ʃ/) are inserted between words with initial sca-and sci-(all incidentally loanwords) instead of appearing after the initial sz, as though it were a single letter, which contrasts several languages such as Albanian, in which dh-, ë-, gj-, ll-, rr-, th-, xh-, and zh ...
24 de jul. de 2021 · The Alphabet [ edit | edit source] Like English, the German alphabet consists of 26 basic letters. However, there are also combined letters and three umlauted forms. An umlaut is the pair of dots placed over certain vowels; in German, Umlaut describes the dotted letter, not just the dots.
The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language. It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof as well as the geographical variants and the influence of German dialects .