"Walscher" redirects here. For the German/Italian wine grape also known as Wälscher, see Trollinger.
Walser German
Walscher, Wallissertitsch
Distribution of Highest Alemannic dialects
Region
upper Valais & Walser, the Alps
Ethnicity
Walser People
Native speakers
22,780 (10,000 in Switzerland) (2004)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Elbe Germanic
High German
Upper German
Alemannic German
Highest Alemannic German
Walser German
Language codes
ISO 639-3
wae
Glottolog
wals1238
IETF
wae[2]
Walser German is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Walser German (German: Walserdeutsch) and Walliser German (Walliserdeutsch, locally Wallisertiitsch) are a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in parts of Switzerland (Valais, Ticino, Grisons), Italy (Piedmont, Aosta Valley), Liechtenstein (Triesenberg, Planken), and Austria (Vorarlberg).[3]
Usage of the terms Walser and Walliser has come to reflect a difference of geography, rather than language. The term Walser refers to those speakers whose ancestors migrated into other Alpine valleys in medieval times, whereas Walliser refers only to a speaker from Upper Valais – that is, the upper Rhone valley. In a series of migrations during the Late Middle Ages, people migrated out of the Upper Valais, across the higher valleys of the Alps.
^Walser German at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
^"Walser". IANA language subtag registry. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
^Dal Negro, Silvia (2014). "Language contact and variation patterns in Walser German subordination". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 67 (4): 469–487. doi:10.1515/stuf-2014-0025. S2CID 146871462.
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