The German national standard DIN 5009 “Word and information processing for office applications — Announcing and dictating of text and characters” by Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) provides rules for the spoken announcement of texts to be written afterwards. In addition to the classic phono dictation, it specifically supports oral communication about names and texts that have to be written down correctly (e.g. on the telephone).DIN 5009: Text-und Informationsverarbeitung für Büroanwendungen – Ansagen und Diktieren von Texten und Schriftzeichen (Word and information processing for office applications – Announcing and dictating of texts and characters), Beuth Verlag, 13 May 2022, requires a subscription
It also specifies German names for numerous script and special characters, which are important not only for oral communication but also for written teaching material. These are mostly listed in a supplement which was published together with the 2022 edition of the standard.DIN 5009 Beiblatt 1: Text-und Informationsverarbeitung für Büroanwendungen – Ansagen und (Diktieren von Texten und Schriftzeichen – Beiblatt 1: Ansage, Benennung und Tastatureingabe von Sonderbuchstaben und Sonderzeichen) (Word and information processing for office applications – Announcing and dictating of texts and characters – Supplement 1: Announcing, naming and keyboard input of special letters and characters), Beuth Verlag, 13 May 2022, requires a subscription
The standard contains the German spelling alphabet. As the former version was criticized for the changes made by the Nazis in 1934, who purged all names which sound “Jewish”, and as these were restored only partially in the 1950 version, in 2019 the responsible DIN committee decided to create a new spelling alphabet consisting mainly of city names instead of person names, which has been published in the 2022 version of the standard.
Table Letter Code word (1983) Code word (2022) A Anton Aachen Ä Ärger Umlaut Aachen B Berta Berlin C Cäsar Chemnitz Ch Charlotte - D Dora Düsseldorf E Emil Essen F Friedrich Frankfurt G Gustav Goslar H Heinrich Hamburg I Ida Ingelheim J Julius Jena K Kaufmann Köln L Ludwig Leipzig M Martha München N Nordpol Nürnberg O Otto Offenbach Ö Ökonom Umlaut Offenbach P Paula Potsdam Q Quelle Quickborn R Richard Rostock S Samuel Salzwedel Sch Schule - ẞ Eszett Eszett T Theodor Tübingen U Ulrich Unna Ü Übermut Umlaut Unna V Viktor Völklingen W Wilhelm Wuppertal X Xanthippe Xanten Y Ypsilon Ypsilon Z Zacharias Zwickau
Revisions DIN 5009:1983-06 DIN 5009:1996-12 DIN 5009:2022-06
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