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Turkish S cedilla

In Related letters, the Turkish S cedilla is missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.247.248.111 (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's mentioned at "S with diacritics". (CC) Tbhotch^™ 16:45, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@ 175.100.12.15 (talk) 11:39, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove the long S from the front Quick Fact section, it's misleading, make a section for it!!

It's misleading to place the long s in the quick section area, it's not used anymore. Imagine you are an alien and you are trying to learn the Latin alphabet, you are going to get the impression that the long s is the widely used lowercase letter. We should talk about it in a section. Restfultree2022 (talk) 23:03, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Restfultree2022: I agree that the long s should not be given equal prominence in the infobox; I have moved it to the "variations" parameter. There is already a section about the long s. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 07:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think the introduction is not consistent.

Read along the path, all the introductions except this are written in full form of ordinary number like seventeenth, eighteenth but this is written as 19th. I suggest there should be a minor change from 19th to nineteenth to ensure consistency. 2001:EE0:4BC7:1FE0:3DA6:7723:C1A5:5A75 (talk) 12:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now fixed. Shantavira|^{feed me} 14:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change "~−700 to present" to "c. 700 BCE to present" JhonJhonII (talk) 15:57, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In the section "German," please change

In the digraph ⟨sch⟩, it represents a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative /ʃ/, as in 'schon'.

to

In the trigraph ⟨sch⟩, it represents a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative /ʃ/, as in 'schon'.

(emphasis mine). Perhaps someone thought that 'ch' is one character in German? However, a visit to German alphabet or even to the German version of this page, which itself says "trigraph," should show otherwise. 166.181.86.208 (talk) 05:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apparent deficiency of the rules given for German

I am no expert, but the rules given in the section "German" do not appear to work in all cases. As just one example, my understanding is that versagen could be either [fɛɐ̯ˈzaːɡn̩] or [fɛɐ̯ˈsaːɡŋ̩] depending on dialect. 166.181.86.208 (talk) 05:16, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]