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High Alemannic, Lake Constance Alemannic and Highest Alemannic dialects exclusively use the Ach-Laut. In most Alemannic dialects, the past participle of the verb meaning to be ( sein in standard German, with past participle gewesen ) derives from a form akin to gesein ( gsi , gsìnn , gsei etc.).
German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
High Alemannic German, including Zürich German and Bernese German; Highest Alemannic German, including the Bernese Oberland dialects and Walliser German; Bavarian. Northern Bavarian (including Nuremberg) Central Bavarian (including Munich and Vienna) Southern Bavarian (including Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, and Bolzano, Italy) Hutterite German aka ...
Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times ...
The German spoken today over the range of the former Alemanni is termed Alemannic German, and is recognised among the subgroups of the High German languages. Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German .
High Alemannic is traditionally subdivided in an Eastern and Western language area , marked by the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line across the cantons of Aargau and Lucerne (Luzern). Eastern High Alemannic includes Zurich German, Lucerne German, and the dialects of Eastern Switzerland.
A peculiarity of the Alemannic Wikipedia is the wide range of dialects permitted; all varieties of Alemannic, including Swiss German, Swabian, Alsatian, and all others are accepted. Authors may not normally alter the dialect used by another contributor, though exceptions are made for local topics, in which modifying the text to reflect the ...
West Upper German: South Franconian, Swabian, Alemannic; East Upper German: Bavarian, East Franconian; In English there is also a grouping into: [13] South Upper German: South and Middle Alemannic, South Bavarian, South Middle Bavarian "on the east bank of the Lech" – where the "state of initial consonants is largely that of Old High German"