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[ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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Corinnebelle

[ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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I know it's always best to speak Hochdeutsch, but I just can't help myself from wanting to learn a little more about the different German dialects. In particular Bairisch because my German teacher was from Bayern and I've been wanting to learn some of her dialect since forever. Anyways, I wanted to point everyone who is interested in learning a little dialect to this Memrise list which is under Small German Dialects:
http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/ ... -dialects/
Many of you may have already seen it, but I wanted to share since I had no idea about it and maybe it can help others. Also, there are some Swiss German lists as well under a seperate tab. Just in case anyone is interested :D

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Re: [ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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First of all, from a linguistic point of view, Bairisch, Schwäbisch and Schwitzerdütsch are High German (hochdeutsche) dialects. What is generally called Hochdeutsch is, again from a linguistic point of view, deutsche Hochsprache, which developed out of Southern German dialects (spoken by the medieval poets) and Middle German dialects (Sachsen, Thüringen, Sachsen-Anhalt), the language spoken by Martin Luther whose translation of the Bible played a major role in establishing a standard German language.
Talking about the varieties of the Bavarian dialect (which includes Austrian and South Tyrolean German): Here is an article about Bavarian songwriters and songs: https://www.schlagerplanet.com/news/cds ... en-mundart

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Corinnebelle

Re: [ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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Don't the Amish speak some form of Plattdüütsch?

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Re: [ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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No, it is a variety of Palatine German language, which is closer to standard high German than to Plattdüütsch.

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Re: [ARCHIVE] Bairisch, Schwäbisch, and Plattdüütsch oh my!

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Pennsylvania Dutch dialects in general are varieties of Palatine, Baden, Swiss German and Alsacian (Alsace is a region in eastern France along the upper Rhine) dialects. A typical Amish sentence is "Mer schwetze noch die Muddersprooch" (We still speak our mother tongue). "Schwätzen" (in standard German to cackle, gabble, twaddle) is used instead of "sprechen" (to speak) in those dialects. I myself (I'm from the southwest of Germany) understand Pennsylvania Dutch much better than Platt. By the way, the correct standard pronunciation is spoken in the north of Germany (at Hannover), simply because the Plattdüütsch language is not understood in the High German and Middle German regions of Germany.

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