Gottscheerish

thumb|Inscription in Gottscheerish on a plaque at the wall of the Chapel of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre|Holy Sepulchre near the Church of Corpus Christi in Trata, [[Kočevje]] thumb|The traditional Gottscherish placenames are not always the same as the German names thumb|The Gottscherish placenames show that the stage of the sound system of Gottscheerish is different from Standard German thumb|Name of the City of Kočevje in Slovene, German and Gottscheerish thumb|Melody and first strophe of the Gottscheer folk song Də mêrarin ("The Woman by the Sea")

Gottscheerish (Göttscheabarisch, , ) is an Upper German dialect which was the main language of communication among the Gottscheers in the enclave of Gottschee, Slovenia, before 1941. It is occasionally referred to as Granish or Granisch in the United States (voiceless |p | |t | |k | |-align=center !aspirate | | | | |kʰ | |-align=center ! voiced |b | |d | |ɡ | |-align=center !rowspan=2|Fricative !voiceless | |f |s |(ɕ) ʃ |x |h |-align=center !voiced |w |v |z |(ʑ) ʒ | | |-align=center !colspan=2|Affricate |pf | |ts |tʃ |kx | |-align=center !colspan=2|Nasal |m | |n |(ɲ) |ŋ | |-align=center !colspan=2|Trill | | |r | | | |-align=center !colspan=2| Lateral | | |l |(ʎ) | | |}