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    What was the purpose of the German orthography reform of 1996?

    Question #115937. Asked by serpa. (Jul 12 10 3:05 PM)


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    		The reform was an attempt to simplify German spelling and thus make it easier to learn, without substantially changing the familiar rules of the German language. The new rules 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.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_spelling_reform_of_1996

    Jul 12 10, 5:13 PM

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