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Alemannic and itself
Etymologically, the term is a loanword of the French képi, itself a respelled version of the Alemannic Käppi: a diminutive form of Kappe, meaning " cap ".

Alemannic and dialect
* Vorarlbergerisch, spoken in Vorarlberg, is a High Alemannic dialect.
The traditional distribution area of Western Upper German (= Alemannic ) dialect features in the 19th and 20th century
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.
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.
The official language of Bern is German, but the main spoken language is the Alemannic dialect called Bernese German.
Alsatian ( Alsatian and ( literally Alsatian-German ); ; or Elsässerdeutsch ) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times.
Genetically, Bavarian is part of the Upper German family along with Alemannic ( which includes Swabian and Swiss German ), whereas Standard German is part of the Middle German family, closer to Upper Saxon German, which – linguistically – is a Thuringian dialect.
Alemán Coloniero, spoken in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, is a dialect that belongs to the Low Alemannic branch of German.
* Alemannic German, a dialect family in the Upper German branch of the German languages and its speakers
Swabian is categorized as an Alemannic dialect, which in turn is one of the two types of Upper German dialects ( the other being Bavarian ).
While there is no standard MHG, the prestige of the Hohenstaufen court gave rise in the late 12th century to a supra-regional literary language ( mittelhochdeutsche Dichtersprache ) based on Swabian, an Alemannic dialect.
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.
That his home was in Strassburg is supported by the fact that the earliest manuscripts of Tristan, dating from the first half of the 13th century, show features of Alemannic and specifically Alsatian dialect.
) The 32 poems " for friends of the rural way of life " were written in Alemannic, the local dialect of Wiesental.
The traditional distribution area of Western Upper German ( = Alemannic ) dialect features in the 19th and 20th century
), where the local Walser dialect has assimilated to the ( likewise Highest Alemannic ) dialects of the Berner Oberland.
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.
Bernese German is the dialect of High Alemannic German spoken in the Swiss plateau ( Mittelland ) part of the canton of Bern and in some neighbouring regions.
* Töitschu the village of Issime in the upper Lys Valley / Lystal in the Aosta Valley ; an outlying dialect of Alemannic not listed separately by the SIL
Zurich German ( German: Zürichdeutsch, Zurich German: Züritüütsch ) is the High Alemannic dialect spoken in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
As for Western Austria, the dialect of the state of Vorarlberg and of a small part of North Tyrol has linguistically and culturally more in common with German-speaking Switzerland and Baden-Württemberg or Swabia in Southwest Germany as it is an Alemannic dialect like Swiss German or Swabian German.
The High Alemannic dialects are spoken in Liechtenstein and in most of German-speaking Switzerland ( for instance Bernese German or Zürich German ) except for the Highest Alemannic dialects in the South and for the Low Alemannic Basel German dialect in the North West.

Alemannic and from
Alemannic belt mountings, from a 7th century grave in the Alemannic grave field | grave field at Weingarten ( Württemberg ) | Weingarten.
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.
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.
Tuesday is in fact " Tīw's Day " ( also in Alemannic Zischtig from zîes tag ), translating dies Martis.
Dagobert created a new duchy ( the later Duchy of Alsace ) in southwest Austrasia to guard the region from Burgundian or Alemannic encroachments and ambitions.
The word baron comes from the Old French baron, from a Late Latin baro " man ; servant, soldier, mercenary " ( so used in Salic Law ; Alemannic Law has barus in the same sense ).
The name " Dornbirn " derives from ' torrin puirron ', meaning the ' Settlement of Torro ' ( the name of an Alemannic farmer living there ) and thus has nothing to do with " pears " ( German " Birnen "), although this fruit is prominently portrayed on the town emblem.
During the 7th century, Alemannic German speaking settlers from the Kingdom of the Franks began to move into the narrow plains around the southern end of Lake Lucerne.
Loess comes from the German Löss or Löß, and ultimately from Alemannic lösch meaning loose as named by peasants and masons along the Rhine Valley.
One story says that Roigheim comes from the Alemannic warrior Roho who is supposed to have settled what he then named Rohingen before 500.
The rise of the Old Swiss Confederacy from the 14th century leads to the creation of Alemannic Swiss chronicles.
From the 17th century, written Alemannic was displaced by Standard German, which emerged from 16th century Early Modern High German, in particular in the wake of Martin Luther's bible translation of the 1520s.
Near the old town, an Alemannic burial place was excavated in 1954 – 1957, dating from the 5th century.
* The Alemans Museum displays archaeological finds from an Alemannic burial place of the early Middle Ages.
On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips ( called, the Alemannic German for " pinewood besom ") through the medieval town center along the Rathausstrasse, entering through the city gate from the south.
Johann Peter Hebel ( 10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826 ) was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, evangelical theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems ( Allemannische Gedichte ) and one of German tales ( Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes Treasure Chest of the Family Friend from the Rhine ).
The 10, 000-euro prize is awarded every two years to writers, translators, essayists, media representatives or scientists from the German district of Baden-Württemberg who write in Alemannic or are connected with Hebel.

Alemannic and Highest
* Highest Alemannic ( in the Canton of Wallis, in the Walser settlements ( e. g., in the canton of Grisons ), in the Bernese Oberland and in the German-speaking part of Fribourg ).
Vowels of proper names often turn into an umlaut in Highest Alemannic, whereas in High Alemannic it remains the same.
Proper names: Christian becomes Chrigi, in Highest Alemannic: Chrigu.
Gabriel becomes Gäbu in Highest Alemannic.
The Walser language (), also known as Walliser German ( locally Wallisertiitsch ), is a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in Walser settlements in parts of Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, and Austria and in the German-speaking part of the Canton of Wallis (), in the uppermost Rhône valley.
Walser German also shows linguistic innovations, such as the plural Tannu-Tannä ( fir-firs ), also found in the other Highest Alemannic dialects.
Distribution of Highest Alemannic dialects
The distribution of the Low Alemannic and High Alemannic subgroups largely correspond to the extent of historical Alemannia, while the Highest Alemannic dialects spread beyond its limits during the High Middle Ages.
Highest Alemannic ( Hegschtalemannisch ) is a branch of Alemannic German and is often considered to be part of 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 ) and in the Walser settlements ( mostly in Switzerland, but also in Italy and in Austria ; see Walser German ).
In the Swiss canton of Graubünden ( Grisons ) only the Walser exclaves in the Romansh part and the Prättigau, Schanfigg and Davos are Highest Alemannic ; the Rhine Valley with Chur and Engadin are High Alemannic.
The distinctive feature of the Highest Alemannic dialects is the lack of hiatus diphthongization, for instance ' to snow ', ' to build ' vs. High Alemannic,.
The Highest Alemannic dialects are considered to be the most conservative dialects of German.

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