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Alsatian
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Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France
Alsatian is a German dialect spoken by people in Alsace, a region in eastern France, and belongs to the Low Alemannic language family. It matters as part of the region's distinct cultural and linguistic heritage, reflecting Alsace's unique history at the intersection of French and German-speaking territories.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spoken language
- Subclass of
- Alemannic
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- writing system
- Latin script
- Commons category
- Alsatian language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1500000
- native label
- Elsässerditsch
- topic's main category
- Category:Alsatian language
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object
- different from
- Lorraine Franconian
- dialect of
- Alemannic
- Wikimedia language code
- gsw-fr
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Encyclopedic overview
Current prevalence map of Alsatian & Moselle Franconian speakers
Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German and Franconian dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times since 1681.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alsatian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.