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High German
Geographic
distribution
German-speaking Europe, United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colonia Tovar
  • Central and southern Germany
  • Austria and South Tyrol
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Switzerland
  • Belgium
  • Alsace and Lorraine
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic
      • High German
Subdivisions
  • Central German
  • Upper German
  • Yiddish
  • High Franconian
Glottologhigh1289

The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and eastern Belgium, as well as in neighbouring portions of France (Alsace and northern Lorraine), Italy (South Tyrol), the Czech Republic (Bohemia), and Poland (Upper Silesia). They are also spoken in diasporas in Romania, Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Namibia.

High German is marked by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and Low Franconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic dialect continuum.

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