German alphabet

The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet:

Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

German uses letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ẞ/ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)), but they do not constitute distinct letters in the alphabet.

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