The traditional distribution area of Western Upper German (= Alemannic ) dialect features in the 19th and 20th century

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.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects ( e. g. Alemannic ).

Its population is primarily ethnic Alemannic, although its resident population is approximately one third foreign-born, primarily German speakers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and the Swiss Confederation, other Swiss, Italians, and Turks.

The official language is German ; most speak Alemannic, a German dialect highly divergent from Standard German, but closely related to those dialects spoken in neighbouring regions.

Its population includes a two-thirds majority of Alemannic German speakers and a one-quarter Latin minority ( French, Italian and Romansh ), see linguistic geography of Switzerland.

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

As a result, he became an important vassal in Swabia, the former Alemannic German stem duchy.

The official language of Bern is German, but the main spoken language is the Alemannic dialect called Bernese German.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

Much less common are labiodental affricates, such as in German and Izi, or velar affricates, such as in Tswana ( written kg ) or High Alemannic Swiss German dialects.

Alsatian is closely related to other nearby Alemannic dialects, such as Swiss German, Swabian, and Markgräflerisch as well as Kaiserstühlerisch.

Many spoke West Middle German dialects and Alemannic dialects, and in the first generations after the settlers arrived it is believed that these dialects merged.

Additionally, it is part of the alphabets used for the Alemannic and the Bavarian-Austrian dialects of German.

The language, like other Alemannic dialects, is not mutually intelligible with Standard German.

From a nationalistic perspective, the transfer seemed justified, since most of the lands that were annexed were populated by people who spoke Alemannic German dialects.

Two-thirds of the population speak French, and one-third speaks Alemannic dialects of German.

Swabian () is one of the Alemannic dialects of High German.

* As in other Alemannic dialects, the pronunciation of " s " before " t " and " p " is ( For example, Fest (" party "), is pronounced as Fescht.

Swabian is categorized as an Alemannic dialect, which in turn is one of the two types of Upper German dialects ( the other being Bavarian ).

Alemannic ( German: ) is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family.

Some linguists and organisations that differentiate between languages and dialects primarily on the grounds of mutual intelligibility, such as SIL International and UNESCO, describe Alemannic as one or several independent languages.

Standard German is used in writing, and orally in formal contexts, throughout the Alemannic-speaking regions ( with the exception of Alsace and Switzerland ), and Alemannic varieties are generally considered German dialects ( more precisely, a dialect group within Upper German ) rather than separate languages.

Unlike most other Alemannic dialects, it does not retain the Middle High German monophthongs û, î but shifts them to, ( as opposed to Standard German, ).

* Low Alemannic dialects.

Note that the Alemannic dialects of Switzerland are often called Swiss German or Schwyzerdütsch.

* The diminutive is used frequently in all Alemannic dialects.

Some scholars have speculated that members of the Alemannic elite such as king Gibuld due to Visigothic influence may have been converted to Arianism even in the later 5th century.

Bad Ems is in Rhineland-Palatinate, on the northwestern boundary of Alemannic settlement, where Frankish influence would have been strongest.

They may have been remnants of the Alemannic confederation, or simply another lesser tribe.

One story says that Roigheim comes from the Alemannic warrior Roho who is supposed to have settled what he then named Rohingen before 500.

There are very few languages that have initial consonant length ; among them are Pattani Malay, Chuukese, a few Romance languages such as Sicilian and Neapolitan, and many of the High Alemannic German dialects ( such as Thurgovian ).

Among the languages that have distinctive vowel length, there are some where it may only occur in stressed syllables, e. g. in the Alemannic German dialect and Egyptian Arabic.

There have also been small discoveries from the Roman and Alemannic eras.

Tenseness is especially used to explain stop consonants of the Alemannic German dialects because they have two series of them that are identically voiceless and unaspirated.

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 '.

There are High Alemannic dialects that have preserved the ending-n which has been dropped in most Upper German dialects.

The design has loose visual parallels in Migration Age Alemannic brooches ( Zierscheiben ), possibly a variation of the Roman swastika fibula, thought to have been worn on Frankish and Alemannic women's belts.

Some cases have never been studied with this question in mind and he has then used primary sources which included reading works in French, German ( including Alemannic German ), Italian ( including the Tuscan dialect ), Spanish, Greek and Latin.