![]() ![]() They do not consider accented characters like é to be separate letters. Spanish speakers consider ñ (and, depending on who you ask, ch and ll) to be a separate letter, but unlike the Swedes they have inserted these into the alphabet in dictionary order. To clarify, the question is: How do native Germans¹ think about their alphabet? For example, Swedes drop w from their alphabet and tack å, ä, and ö onto the end. It may seem like a silly question, but my wife was asking and I honestly don’t know because I don’t think I was ever taught these things in German class in college. Is the ordering the same as English? Does it include C, which I notice never seems to show up in native-German words? Does it include ü, ö, ä, and ß? If so, where? Does that mean Germans think of the alphabet as having 30 letters? Or is it less than that with some of them considered variants? ![]() ![]() I mean the “official” or “traditional” alphabet, such as the one taught in schools to children. ![]()
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