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Upper German

Upper German
Oberdeutsch
Geographic
distribution		Southern Germany, northern and central Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Northern Italy (South Tyrol), France (Alsace)
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Early form
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologhigh1286
Upper German after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans.

High Franconian:

  1: East Franconian
  2: South Franconian

Alemannic:

  3: Swabian German
  4: Low Alemannic
  5: High and Highest Alemannic

Bavarian:

  6: Northern Bavarian
  7: Central Bavarian
  8: Southern Bavarian

Upper German (German: Oberdeutsch [ˈoːbɐdɔʏtʃ] ) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area (Sprachraum).

  1. ^ a b Peter Ernst: Deutsche Sprachgeschichte: Eine Einführung in die diachrone Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen. 3rd ed., UTB / facultas Verlag, 2021, p. 76 [about Old and early Middle High German]
  2. ^ a b Heinz Mettke: Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik. 8. Aufl., Tübingen, 2000, p. 20ff. [the grammar is about Middle High German, but the dialectal overview more general]
  3. ^ Thordis Hennings: Einführung in das Mittelhochdeutsche. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2020, p. 5–7 [about Middle High German], having: „Das Oberdeutsche: [..] das Alemannische, Bairische, Südrheinfränkische und Ostfränkische.“

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