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.
Read more about this topic: German Orthography Reform Of 1996
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