The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus four special letters.
Basic alphabet
in Germany
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Umlaut diacritic usage
The accented letters ⟨ä, ö, ü⟩ are used to indicate the presence of umlauts (fronting of back vowels). Before the introduction of the See more

Capitalization
A typical feature of German spelling is the general capitalization of nouns and of most nominalized words. In addition, capital letters are used: at the beginning of sentences (may be used after a colon, when the part of a … See more

Middle Ages
The oldest known German texts date back to the 8th century. They were written mainly in monasteries in different local dialects of See more

There are three ways to deal with the umlauts in alphabetic sorting.
1. Treat them like their base characters, as if the umlaut were … See more

This section lists German letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. … See more

The period (full stop) is used at the end of sentences, for abbreviations, and for ordinal numbers, such as der 1. for der erste (the first). The … See more