Everything about Highest Alemannic German totally explained
Highest Alemannic is a branch of
Alemannic dialects and belongs to the
German language, even though
mutual intelligibility with
Standard German and other non-Alemannic German dialects is very limited.
Highest Alemannic dialects are spoken in
alpine regions of
Switzerland: In the
Bernese Oberland, in the German-speaking parts of the
Canton of Fribourg, in the
Valais (see
Walliser German), in the german speaking parts of
Grisons, and in the
Walser settlements (mostly in Switzerland but also in
Italy and in
Austria; see
Walser German). In the West, the South and the South-East, they're surrounded by
Romance languages; in the North, by
High Alemannic dialects.
Features
The distinctive feature of the Highest Alemannic dialects is the lack of
hiatus diphthongization, for instance [ˈʃniː.ə(n)] 'to snow', [ˈb̥uː.ə(n)] 'to build' vs. High Alemannic [ˈʃnei̯jə], [ˈb̥ou̯wə].
Many High Alemannic dialects have different
verbal plural endings for all three persons, for instance
wir singe(n) 'we sing',
ir singet 'you (plural) sing',
si singent 'they sing'. Almost all other German dialects use the same ending for the first and third persons in the plural.
There are High Alemannic dialects that have preserved the ending -n which has been dropped in most
Upper German dialects.
The Highest Alemannic dialects are considered to be the most conservative dialects of German. The dialect of the
Lötschental, for instance, preserved the three distinct classes of
weak verbs (like in
Old High German) until the beginning of the 20th century.
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