German Orthography Reform of 1996 - New Rules

New Rules

The rules of the new spelling concern the following areas:

  • correspondence between sounds and written letters (this includes rules for spelling loan words)
  • capitalisation
  • joined and separate words
  • hyphenated spellings
  • punctuation
  • hyphenation at the end of a line

Place names and family names were excluded from the reform.

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