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

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.

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.

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

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.

In the Alemannic language once spoken in Lorraine, the-ingen suffix signified a property ; thus, in a figurative sense, " Lotharingen " can be translated as " Land belonging to Lothair ".

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.

Alemán Coloniero, spoken in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, is a dialect that belongs to the Low Alemannic branch of German.

Alemannic itself comprises a dialect continuum, from the Highest Alemannic spoken in the mountainous south to Swabian in the relatively flat north, with more of the characteristics of Standard German the farther north one goes.

Swabian ( Schwäbisch ) is one of the Alemannic German dialects of High German, spoken in the region of Swabia, present in the North-Eastern area of the Alemannic Sprachraum.

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.

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.

Zurich German ( German: Zürichdeutsch, Zurich German: Züritüütsch ) is the High Alemannic dialect spoken in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

The Austrian German spoken at home and in local commerce will be one of a number of regional Upper German dialects ( either Austro-Bavarian or Alemannic dialects ).

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 ).

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.

The existence of this dialect is one evidence of remarkable linguistic diversity within the small Principality, as it is spoken alongside the Standard German, and the Alemannic dialect common to the country.

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.

* High Alemannic ( mostly in Switzerland, parts of Vorarlberg, and in the southern parts of the Black Forest in Germany ).

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.

* 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

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.

The Alemannic people settled the lower Rhine Valley in the early Middle Ages.

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.

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.

Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

* Austro-Bavarian, a group of closely related dialects of German, spoken in parts of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Alto Adige / Südtirol

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

They are mainly spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore.

It is also spoken by 50, 000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds minority language status.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

West Flemish (, ) is a dialect group of Dutch spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

The language is spoken by at least 13 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, and diaspora communities in numerous parts of the world.

Mizrahi ( Oriental ) Hebrew is actually a collection of dialects spoken liturgically by Jews in various parts of the Arab and Islamic world.

It is possible that the Celtic languages developed or spread to England as part of this system ; by the end of the Iron Age at the very least there is ample evidence that they were spoken across the whole of England, as well as the Western parts of Britain.

Separate smaller Hausa dialects are spoken by an unknown number of Hausa further west in parts of Burkina Faso, and in the Haoussa Foulane, Badji Haoussa, Guezou Haoussa, and Ansongo districts of northeastern Mali ( where it is designated as a minority language by the Malian government ), but there are very little linguistic resources and research done on these particular dialects at this time.

Hausa is also spoken various parts of Cameroon and Chad, which combined the mixed dialects of Northern Nigeria and Niger Republic, French has made a great influence in the way Hausa is spoken by the native Hausa speakers.

India has more than two thousand ethnic groups, and every major religion is represented, as are four major families of languages ( Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages ) as well as two language isolates ( the Nihali language spoken in parts of Maharashtra and the Burushaski language spoken in parts of Jammu and Kashmir ).