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ARTICLES RELATED TO Swiss German - Pronunciation | | | |  Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Pronunciation
Swiss German - Consonants.
Like in all Southern German dialects, Swiss German dialects have no voiced obstruents. Instead, there is a length distinction.
Swiss German /p, t, k/ are not aspirated. Aspirated [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ] have (in most dialects) secondarily developed by contractions or by borrowings from other languages (mainly standard German), e.g. /ˈ ...
See also:Swiss German, Swiss German - Use, Swiss German - Variation and Distribution, Swiss German - History, Swiss German - Pronunciation, Swiss German - Consonants, Swiss German - Vowels, Swiss German - Suprasegmentals, Swiss German - Grammar, Swiss German - Writing, Swiss German - Vocabulary, Swiss German - Literature, Swiss German - External link Read more here: » Swiss German: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Pronunciation |
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| | | | Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Writing Swiss German dialects are usually not written, but only spoken. All formal writing, newspapers, books and much of informal writing is done in Standard German, which is usually called Schriftdeutsch (written German). Certain dialectal words are accepted regionalisms in Swiss Standard German and are also sanctioned by the Duden, e.g. Zvieri (afternoon snack).
There exist relatively few written works in Swiss dialects. Today especially young people use the dialect more and more in informal written communication (e.g. e-mail or SMS). However, most write standard ...
See also:Swiss German, Swiss German - Use, Swiss German - Variation and Distribution, Swiss German - History, Swiss German - Pronunciation, Swiss German - Consonants, Swiss German - Vowels, Swiss German - Suprasegmentals, Swiss German - Grammar, Swiss German - Writing, Swiss German - Vocabulary, Swiss German - Literature, Swiss German - External link Read more here: » Swiss German: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Writing |
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| | | | Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Vocabulary The vocabulary is rather rich - especially in rural areas there are many special terms retained, e.g. regarding cattle or weather. In the cities, much of the rural vocabulary has been lost.
Most borrowings come from Standard German. Many of these are now so common that they have totally replace the original Swiss German words, e.g. the words Hügel 'hill' (instead of Egg, Bühl), Lippe 'lip' (instead of Lefzge). Others have replaced the original words only in parts of Switzerland, e.g. Butter 'butter ...
See also:Swiss German, Swiss German - Use, Swiss German - Variation and Distribution, Swiss German - History, Swiss German - Pronunciation, Swiss German - Consonants, Swiss German - Vowels, Swiss German - Suprasegmentals, Swiss German - Grammar, Swiss German - Writing, Swiss German - Vocabulary, Swiss German - Literature, Swiss German - External link Read more here: » Swiss German: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Vocabulary |
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| | | | Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - History As Alemannic dialects, Swiss German dialects did not participate in the second German vowel shift during medieval times - they use mostly the same vowels as Middle High German. As such, even though the Alemannic dialects belong to High German, their vowels are closer to Low German than other High German dialects or standard German. An exception are certain central Swiss dialects, e.g. the Uri dialect.
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Most Swiss German dialects, being High-Alemannic dialects, have completed the High German consonant shift, that is, th ...
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| | | | Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Variation and Distribution Swiss German is a regional, or political, umbrella term, not a linguistic unity. For all dialects, there are idioms spoken outside Switzerland that are more closely related to them than some Swiss German dialects. The main linguistic divisions within Swiss German are those of Low, High and Highest Alemannic. Low Alemannic is only spoken in the northernmost parts of Switzerland, in Basel and around Lake Constance. High Alemannic is spoken in most of the Swiss plateau, and is divided in an eastern an ...
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| | | | Swiss German - Pronunciation: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Use Unlike most dialects in modern Europe, Swiss German is the spoken everyday language of all social levels in industrial cities as well as in the countryside. Using dialect conveys no social or educational inferiority. There are only a few specific settings where speaking Standard German is demanded or polite, e.g. in education (but not during breaks), in multilingual parliaments (the federal parliaments and a few cantonal and municipal ones), in the main news broadcast or in the presence of German-speaking foreigners. This situation has been called a medial diglossia since the spoken language is mainly the dialect whereas the written ...
See also:Swiss German, Swiss German - Use, Swiss German - Variation and Distribution, Swiss German - History, Swiss German - Pronunciation, Swiss German - Consonants, Swiss German - Vowels, Swiss German - Suprasegmentals, Swiss German - Grammar, Swiss German - Writing, Swiss German - Vocabulary, Swiss German - Literature, Swiss German - External link Read more here: » Swiss German: Encyclopedia II - Swiss German - Use |
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