German Orthographic Conference of 1901
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The German Orthographic Conference of 1901 (the Berlin II Orthographic Conference; German: Zweite Orthographische Konferenz or II. Orthographische Konferenz) took place in Berlin from 17 until 19 June 1901. The results of the conference became official in the German Empire in 1902.[1][2][3] The standardized
The conference results removed numerous existing variant forms. Soon after the conference, its results were criticized by people[who?] who believed there should be further changes.[clarification needed]
The spelling was used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, apart from the replacement of ß with ss in Switzerland in later years. The Erziehungsrat des Kantons Zürich stopped the teaching of ß in schools in 1935 with the
It was not until 95 years later that the German spelling was changed with a
Encoding
The IETF language tags have registered de-1901 for "Traditional German orthography".[6]
See also
References
- ^ Peter von Polenz: Deutsche Sprachgeschichte vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart – Band III – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p. 240
- ^ Wolfgang Kopke: Rechtschreibreform und Verfassungsrecht. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen, 1995, p. 28
- ^ Edited by Werner Besch, Anne Betten, Oskar Reichmann, Stefan Sonderegger: Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung – 2., vollständig neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage – 3. Teilband (Hanbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Band 2.3), Walter de Gruyter, 2003, p. 2495 (chapter "Geschichte der Interpunktionssysteme im Deutschen").
- ^ Ulrich Ammon: Die deutsche Sprache in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Problem der nationalen Varietäten. Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 254
- ^ Edited by Gerhard Helbig, Lutz Götze, Gert Henrici, Hans-Jürgen Krumm: Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Ein internationales Handbuch. 1. Halbband. Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 496f.
- ^ "IETF Language Subtag Registry". IANA. 6 August 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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