AVE GERMAN WILL TRAVEL sPRA DEUTSCH / GERMAN language: die Sprache, die Sprachen dialect: die Mundart, die Mundarten der Dialekt, die Dialekte slang: die Umgangssprache, die Umgangssprachen die Sondersprache, die Sondersprachen HOCHDEUTSCH / HIGH GERMAN High German or Hochdeutsch - The official language of Germany as promulgated in the schools. the press, the broadcast media. and specifically in the dictionary series called the Duden. gradation goes the broaaWest-East High German (Oberdeutsch):To the High Oberdeutsch Bavarian dialectal boundary through Upper German dialects belong Swabian­ Austria, Salzburg, the Styrian Enns valley, Alemannic (Schwabisch-Alemannisch), Alemannisth and Upper Carinthia. This boundary goes Bavarian (Bairisch), East Franconian - Allgauerisch back to the time of the first Bavarian land (Ostfrankisch) and South (Rhine) acquisition and follows approximately the Franconian (SGd(rhein)frankische). - Badisch outer boundary of East Carolingia and the - Elsassisch former Duchy of Austria. Swabian-Alemannic (Schwabisch­ Alemannisch): Includes Wuerttemberg - Schweizerdeutsch South Bavarian (Sudbairisch) South (W0rttemberg), Baden, German-speaking - Baseldeutsch Bavarian is spoken mostly in Styria. Alsace (Eisai!), Bavaria (Bayem) west ofthe Carinthia, and Tyrolia. Lech, and the German-speaking parts of - Berndeutsch Switzerland (Schweiz) and Vorarlberg. - Walliserdeutsch Salzburgish (Salzburgisch) Salzburgish is & Walserdeutsch an intermediate form between South and Swabian (Schwabisch) - Zurichdeutsch Middle Bavarian. Low Alemannic (Niederalemannisch) - Schwabisch Middle Bavarian (Mittelbairisch or - Vorarlbergerisch Donaubairisch): This dialect, also called High Alemannic (Hochalemannisch): High Bairisch Danube Bavarian, occupies most of the Alemannic is used in Switzerland. Bavarian region including the Danube and - Nordbairisch )he middle and lower Inn valleys and already Highest Alemannic (Hochstalemannisch, • Mittelbairisch m the early Middle Ages extended from the or Walserdeutsch): A form of High Lech to Bratislava (Pressburg). Alemannic spoken in parts of the Canton of - Wienerisch Wallis (in Oberwallis) is HighestAlemannic, - SOdbairisch North Bavarian (Nordbairisch or also called Walserdeutsch or Walserish. The Oberpf.ilzerisch): This dialect, also called Walsers spread their dialect also into - Gottscheerisch Upper Franconian, is spoken in the region Graubunden and Vorarlberg and into other - SOdtirol around Regensburg, Naab, the Walser settlements. Some parts of Walser Fichtelgebirge (Fir Mountains), and in the German in Graubiinden show influence from - Zimbrisch northern Bohemian Forest. Rhaeto-Romanic. , O::,L-)Franklsch East Franconian (Ostfrankisch, Main- or Alsatian (Elsassisch): Very ancient 5udfrankisch Oberfrankisch): This dialectal area, also dialects, whose northern forms belong lo called Main Franconian (after the river Main) Upper Rhenish, and whose southern forms or Upper Franconian, extends as a well­ belong to South Badensian and to Swiss defined area around Wurzburg, Bamberg, German. To be pointed out especially is the Bayreuth, to southern and western Thuringia so-called "Hanauer Land" near by a~~ ~ut to the Vogtland. Nuremburg and its Strassburg, the Munster v;3lley country of the Vicinity are also included. Vosges and to the south in the Sundgau. South Franconlan (Sudfrankisch or Bavarian (Bairisch): Bavarian is divided Sudrheinfrankisch): This is a linguistic into South, Middle, and High Bavarian, region that lies as a border swath between where the broad plains on the lsar and the Swabian-Alemannic, North Bavarian, Danube rivers connect Upper and Lower East Franconian, and Rhine Franconian Bavaria with the main parts of Upper and regions. Lower Austria to the central territories of the largest German dialectal region of Middle Bavarian. Through this north-south .