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Key facts
- Native to
- Germany
- Ethnicity
- Swabians
- Native speakers
- 820,000 (2006)
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Upper German Alemannic Swabian
- Writing system
- Latin ( German alphabet )
- Iso 639 3
- swg
- Glottolog
- swab1242
- Ietf
- swg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Alemannic
- Country
- Germany
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- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 820000
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object
- native label
- Schwäbisch
- dialect of
- German
- indigenous to
- Bavaria
- Commons category
- Swabian language
- topic's main category
- Category:Swabian German language
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Encyclopedic overview
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), 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. 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.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swabian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.