Dated to between AD 660 and 690, it marks the end of the native Alemannic tradition of runic literacy.

the 520s to the 620s, there was a surge of Alemannic Elder Futhark inscriptions.

The oldest known texts in Alemannic are brief Elder Futhark inscriptions dating to the 6th century ( Bülach fibula, Pforzen buckle, Nordendorf fibula ).

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.

Alsace is influenced by the Alemannic food culture ; as such, beers made in the area are similar to the style of bordering Germany.

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.

The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden ( or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer (" Wuodan's Army ") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.

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

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.

Walser German also shows linguistic innovations, such as the plural Tannu-Tannä ( fir-firs ), also found in the other Highest Alemannic dialects.

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 ).

For example, the various regional varieties ( dialects ) of German, such as Alemannic, Austro-Bavarian, Central Hessian, East Hessian, North Hessian, Kölsch and Low German, are heteronomous with respect to standard German.

Native American languages ( such as Siglit, Quechua, and Greenlandic ) and minority languages of France ( Lexique Étymologique du Breton moderne on Breton ; Le Dialecte Alaman de Colmar on Alemannic ) also claimed his attention.

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.

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

Bonfire traditions of early spring, known as in German, lit on the Sunday following Ash Wednesday ( Funkensonntag ), are widespread throughout the Alemannic German speaking regions of Europe and in parts of France.

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.

After the fall of the Roman Empire beginning in the 6th century, Germanic Alemannic peoples increased their influence on this area of present day Switzerland.

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.

William was born as son of the Alemannic Duke Robert of Volpiano at the citadel of his family on the island S. Giulio of the Lake Orta in Piedmont.

* 370, Invasion of Roman Gaul by Saxons, Death of all invading Saxons, Invasion of Alemannic territory by Valentinian the Great, Rome captures thousands of Alemannic Bucinobantes, Deposition of Alemannic King Macrian, Hunnic raids on Gothic Greuthungi.

* 428 – 431, Failed Roman campaigns against Salian Franks, Alemannic Juthungi on the Rhine and Danube, Fall of the Kingdom of Armenia.

* 496, War between Merovingians and Alemanni for supremacy on the Rhine, Franks defeat the Alemanni in a decisive battle, Alemannic King Gibuld dies in battle, Alemanni subject to the Merovingians, Begin of Christianization of the Franks, Begin of Christianization of Europe.

The Bucinobantes ( German: Bucinobanten ) were an Alemannic tribe in the region of the modern city of Mainz on the river Main.

Whereas some are found only in the southern parts of Alemannic ( which includes Swiss German ) or Bavarian ( which includes Austrian ), most are found throughout the Upper German area, and some spread on into the Central 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.

Folklorists lay emphasis on the importance of the parallel Brünig-Napf-Reuss line further in the east, separating the historic Alemannic and Burgundian spheres of influence.

Alemannic German dialects have unaspirated as well as aspirated ; the latter series are usually viewed as consonant clusters.

Dialects spoken in the Black Forest area are Alemannic and Swabian.

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.

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 ).

For this reason there are some Alemannic cemeteries in the southern foothills of the Taunus ( Eschborn ).

On certain autumn nights, children's processions with lanterns are common in Alemannic Switzerland.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 West, the South and the South-East, they are surrounded by Romance languages ; in the North, by High Alemannic dialects.

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.