The German Alphabet (Das deutsche Alphabet) The German alphabet consists of the same 26 letters as the English alphabet, plus four special characters: three umlauts (Ä, Ö, Ü) and the Eszett (ß).

The Alphabet. Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö.

Henning takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö. Where would Düsseldorf be without its umlaut?

Every letter is assigned a name or term to clarify which letter is meant. The first German version goes back to the 1890 Berlin telephone book — every letter was assigned a number. In 1905, the ...

It's not every day that a new letter of the alphabet comes along. But, last Monday, an addition to the German alphabet emerged blinking into the daylight after a campaign lasting 130 years - to a ...

The letter is not used everywhere in the German-speaking world. ... Some cite the Swiss keyboard for this reason, as it is adapted to the French alphabet, rather than the German one.