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Swabian

Schwäbisch

Swabian is an Indo-European language spoken in Germany, by about 820 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Swabian · 48.4°N 10.0°E

Swabian (German: Schwäbisch [ˈʃvɛːbɪʃ] ) is one of the dialect groups of Upper German, sometimes one of the dialect groups of Alemannic German (in the broad sense), that belong to the High German dialect continuum. It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia). Furthermore, Swabian German dialects are spoken by Caucasus Germans in Transcaucasia. The dialects of the Danube Swabian population of Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and Romania are only nominally Swabian and can be traced back not only to Swabian but also to Franconian, Bavarian and Hessian dialects, with locally varying degrees of influence of the initial dialects.

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Words in Swabian

MeaningWordRomanization
liverLäbr
waterWasser
stonestoe
mountainBerg
pigKosel
oneoe
Ii
drinkschlotza
sugarZuggå
eggOi
potatoBodabirra
I love youi mog di

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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