Language family. Alsatian is closely related to other nearby Alemannic dialects, such as Swiss German, Swabian, and Markgräflerisch as well as Kaiserstühlerisch.It is often confused with Lorraine Franconian, a more distantly related Franconian dialect spoken in the northwest corner of Alsace and in neighbouring Lorraine.Like other dialects and languages, Alsatian has also …

Old High German evolved from about 500 AD. Around 1200 the Swabian and East Franconian varieties of Middle High German became dominant as a court and poetry language under the rule of the House of Hohenstaufen.. The term "High German" as spoken in central and southern Germany (Upper Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria) and Austria was first documented in the …

Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose inhabitants interchangeably were called Alemanni or Suebi.. This territory would include all of the Alemannic German area, but the modern …

Pennsylvania Dutch (Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch or Pennsilfaanisch), referred to as Pennsylvania German in scholarly literature, is a variety of Palatine German spoken by the Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other descendants of German immigrants in the United States and Canada. There are possibly more than 300,000 native speakers of …

Luxembourgish (/ ˈ l ʌ k s əm b ɜːr ɡ ɪ ʃ / LUK-səm-bur-gish; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuergesch [ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ] ()) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg.About 600,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has …

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.

Upper Saxon (German: Obersächsisch, pronounced [ˈoːbɐˌzɛksɪʃ]; Upper Saxon: [ɵːb̥oˤˈsɛɡ̊sʃ]) is an East Central German language spoken in much of the modern German state of Saxony and in adjacent parts of southeastern Saxony-Anhalt and eastern Thuringia.As of the early 21st century, it's mostly extinct and a new regiolect (also known as obersächsische Umgangssprache) has ...

The Swabian Jura (German: Schwäbische Alb [ˈʃvɛːbɪʃə ˈʔalp] (), more rarely Schwäbischer Jura [ˈʃvɛːbɪʃɐ ˈjuːʁa] ()), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending 220 km (140 mi) from southwest to northeast and 40 to 70 km (25 to 43 mi) in width.It is named after the region of Swabia.

The East Franconian dialects are transitional dialects between Central-and Upper German. The East Franconian dialect branch is one of the most spoken dialect branches in Germany. ... or "Swabian" (because of strong influences from the capital Stuttgart, where Swabian dialects are spoken) in the Württembergian parts of Baden-Württemberg.

Butler English: (also Bearer English or Kitchen English), once an occupational dialect, now a social dialect. Hinglish: a growing macaronic hybrid use of English and Indian languages. Regional and local Indian English. East Region: Oriya English, Maithili English, Assamese/Bengali English, North-East Indian English etc.