German Alphabet
The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet:
| Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
German uses letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)), but they do not constitute distinct letters in the alphabet.
Read more about German Alphabet: Letter Names, Spelling Alphabet
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