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2. German orthography reform of 1996 - Wikipedia

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   Due to the nature of the topic, most books and papers regarding the German spelling reform appeared in the German language. The following list includes authors who are responsible for the definition of the imposed changes. Gerhard Augst; Karl Blüml; Dieter Nerius; Horst Sitta (Hrsg.): Zur Neuregelung der deutschen Orthographie. Begründung und ...

3. German orthography - Wikipedia

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   The spelling goes back to the Middle High German pronunciation of that diphthong, which was [ei̯]. The spelling ai is found in only a very few native words (such as Saite 'string', Waise 'orphan') but is commonly used to romanize /aɪ̯/ in foreign loans from languages such as Chinese.

4. German alphabet - Wikipedia

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   In German Kurrent writing, the superscripted e was simplified to two vertical dashes, which have degenerated to dots in both handwriting and German typesetting. Although the two dots look like those in the diaeresis (trema) diacritical marking, a distinction should be made between umlaut and diaresis because the two have different functions.

5. Council for German Orthography - Wikipedia

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   German (or a variety of German) is spoken by a sizeable minority, but has no legal recognition. The Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁaːt fyːɐ̯ ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʁɛçtˌʃʁaɪbʊŋ] , " Council for German Orthography " or " Council for German Spelling " [ 1 ] ), or RdR , is the main international body regulating ...

6. Spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   Street name adapted to last German spelling reform. German spelling was officially unified in 1901 and certain older spelling patterns were updated: for instance some occurrences of "th" were changed to "t". In 1944 a spelling reform was due to be introduced, but it ultimately came to nothing because of World War II.

7. ß - Wikipedia

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   By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...

8. Standard German - Wikipedia

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   German is a pluricentric Dachsprache with currently three codified (or standardised) specific national varieties: German Standard German, Austrian Standard German and Swiss Standard German. [4] Regarding the spelling and punctuation, a recommended standard is published by the Council for German Orthography which represents the governments of ...

9. German orthography reform of 1944 - Wikipedia

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   optional changes to the spelling of words of foreign origin to remove non-German combinations, e.g. Filosof for Philosoph meaning philosopher the removal of the third consonant in all groups of three consecutive consonants resulting from the combination of two words, e.g. Sauerstoff f lasche to Sauerstofflasche , although this was often ...