Freiburg im Breisgau ( Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau ) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a population of about 230, 000 people.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ).

* 368, Invasion of Alemannic territory under Emperor Valentinian the Great, Crossing of the Rhine by the Roman Empire.

* 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 language area is located in the transient zone between Rhine Franconian dialects ( Hessian and Palatinate German ) in the north and Alemannic German ( Low Alemannic and Swabian German ) in the south.

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.

* Alemannic: spoken in parts of the Aosta Valley, northern Piedmont

* 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

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.

Alemannic minuscule, used for a short time in the early 9th century, is usually larger and broader, very vertical compared to the slanting Rhaetian type.

* The Alemans Museum displays archaeological finds from an Alemannic burial place of the early Middle Ages.

Thalwil is first mentioned around 1030 as Talwile villam, which is derived from Tellewilare, Tello's Farm, and indicates the early medieval origins of Thalwil as an Alemannic farmstead.

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.

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.

It remained a part of Alemannia throughout the Early Middle Ages and was a buffer zone between the central Alemannic lands and Alsace, which was less strongly colonised by the Alemanni.

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, ).

Alemannic Middle High German is less prominent, in spite of the Codex Manesse compiled by Johannes Hadlaub of Zürich.

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.

The feature that distinguishes Low Alemannic from Swabian is the retention of the Middle High German monophthongs, for instance Huus ' house ' vs. Swabian Hous or Ziit ' time ' vs. Swabian Zejt.

* Vorarlbergerisch, spoken in Vorarlberg, is a High Alemannic dialect.

Alemannic belt mountings, from a 7th century grave in the Alemannic grave field | grave field at Weingarten ( Württemberg ) | Weingarten.

The archaeology, however, shows that they were largely Romanized, lived in Roman-style houses and used Roman artifacts, the Alemannic women having adopted the Roman fashion of the tunic even earlier than the men.

In 746, Carloman ended an uprising by summarily executing all Alemannic nobility at the blood court at Cannstatt, and for the following century, Alemannia was ruled by Frankish dukes.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

By the 6th century AD there is evidence of the foundation of a Bavarian stem duchy whose leadership was related to the ruling Frankish ( and possibly Alemannic / Swabian ) houses.

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

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 ).

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.

Tuesday is in fact " Tīw's Day " ( also in Alemannic Zischtig from zîes tag ), translating dies Martis.

# 231r: Winli ( an unidentified Alemannic poet, ca.

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.