"Schwabian" redirects here. For other uses, see Swabian (disambiguation).
Swabian
Schwäbisch,[1]schwäbische Mundart[2]
Native to
Germany[1]
Ethnicity
Swabians
Native speakers
820,000 (2006)[3]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
Upper German
Alemannic
Swabian
Writing system
Latin (German alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
swg
Glottolog
swab1242
IETF
swg[4]
Areas where Alemannic dialects are spoken
Swabian
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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),[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
^ ab"Swabian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
^Hyazinth Wäckerle: Gau! Stau! Bleiba lau! Gedichte in schwäbischer Mundart. Augsburg, 1875, p. 6 (Google Books)
^Swabian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Swabian". IANA language subtag registry. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
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not included e.g. in:
Hermann Niebaum, Jürgen Macha, Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen, 3rd ed, 2014, p. 252: "Das Westobd. [= Westoberdeutsche] zerfällt in Alemannisch, Schwäbisch, Südfränkisch und Ostfränkisch."
Peter von Polenz, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, 10th ed., 2009, p. 26 with a map having the dialect area of Alemannisch and Schwäbisch as "Westoberdeutsch", and p. 23: "[...] in den südlichsten Dialekten Alemannisch, Schwäbisch, Bairisch und Ostfränkisch, die zusammen das Oberdeutsche bilden."
^[http://www.goethe.de/ins/ge/prj/dig/his/lig/deindex.htm "Geschichte der deutschen Siedler im Kaukasus – Leben in Georgien – Goethe-Institut 2019". www.goethe.de. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
^Gehl, Hans. "Donauschwäbische Dialekte, 2014". www.sulinet.hu (in German). Sulinet Program Office (Hungary) in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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