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German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic. However, it shows many instances of spellings that are historic ...
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 Standard High German orthography.
Those propositions were adopted 19 years after Heuer’s death in the 1996 German orthography reform. [note 2] The orthography reform of 1996 also integrated words whose orthography in the NZZ, set by Heuer, differed from the Duden, such as überschwänglich instead of überschwenglich or Albtraum instead of Alptraum.
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 ...
The German orthography reform of 1996 (Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996) was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography and thus to make it easier to learn, [1] without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
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 ...
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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 ...