Appendix:German alphabet

Letters and letter names

The German language is written using the Latin alphabet, along with a four special characters: Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü, ẞ/ß

The three umlauts can also optionally be represented by the non-standard digraphs ae/oe/ue. The ẞ/ß is not used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. ẞ is usually replaced with SS in all-caps text.

All letter names are neuter nouns that can be declined as usual.

		letter name	letter name (IPA)	letter name (audio)
A	a	A	IPA(key): [ʔaː]	(file)
B	b	Be	IPA(key): [beː]	(file)
C	c	Ce	IPA(key): [t͡seː]	(file)
D	d	De	IPA(key): [deː]	(file)
E	e	E	IPA(key): [ʔeː]	(file)
F	f	Ef	IPA(key): [ʔɛf]	(file)
G	g	Ge	IPA(key): [ɡeː]	(file)
H	h	Ha	IPA(key): [haː]	(file)
I	i	I	IPA(key): [ʔiː]	(file)
J	j	Jot	IPA(key): [jɔt]	(file)
K	k	Ka	IPA(key): [kaː]	(file)
L	l	El	IPA(key): [ʔɛl]	(file)
M	m	Em	IPA(key): [ʔɛm]	(file)
N	n	En	IPA(key): [ʔɛn]	(file)
O	o	O	IPA(key): [ʔoː]	(file)
P	p	Pe	IPA(key): [peː]	(file)
Q	q	Qu	IPA(key): [kuː]	(file)
R	r	Er	IPA(key): [ʔɛʁ]	(file)
S	s	Es	IPA(key): [ʔɛs]	(file)
T	t	Te	IPA(key): [teː]	(file)
U	u	U	IPA(key): [ʔuː]	(file)
V	v	Vau	IPA(key): [faʊ̯]	(file)
W	w	We	IPA(key): [veː]	(file)
X	x	Ix	IPA(key): [ʔɪks]	(file)
Y	y	Ypsilon	IPA(key): [ˈʏpsilɔn]	(file)
Z	z	Zett	IPA(key): [t͡sɛt]	(file)
Ä	ä	Ä	IPA(key): [ʔɛː]	(file)
Ö	ö	Ö	IPA(key): [ʔøː]	(file)
Ü	ü	Ü	IPA(key): [ʔyː]	(file)
ẞ	ß	Eszett scharfes S	IPA(key): [ʔɛsˈt͡sɛt] IPA(key): [ˈʃaʁfəs ʔɛs]	(file) (file)