Upper German
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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Southern Germany , northern and central Switzerland , Austria , Liechtenstein , Northern Italy ( South Tyrol ), France ( Alsace ), Argentina , Chile , Venezuela ( Colonia Tovar : Alemán Coloniero )
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic High German Upper German
- Early form
- since the New High German time: Old High German and Middle High German
- Subdivisions
- Alemannic Bavarian East Franconian South Franconian Lombardic †
- Glottolog
- high1286
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Encyclopedic overview
Upper German (German: Oberdeutsch [ˈoːbɐdɔʏtʃ] ) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area (Sprachraum).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Upper German” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.