Alemannic
group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family
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Summary
Alemannic is a language[1]. Alemannic ranks in the top 0.77% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,607 views/month, #43 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Austria[3], Germany[4], Venezuela[5], Italy[6], Liechtenstein[7], France[8], Switzerland[9]
- Instance of: dialect group[10], supradialect[11], dialect[12]
- Subclass of: Upper German[13]
- Writing system: Latin script[14]
- Commons category: Alemannic language[15]
- Wikimedia language code: als[16], gsw[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:Alemannic German language[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 10,000,000[19]
- Described by source: Encyclopedic Lexicon[20]
- Topic has template: Q74247128[21]
- Native label: Alemannisch[22], Schwyzerdütsch[23]
- Short name: Alemannic[24]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[25]
- Indigenous to: Vorarlberg[26], German-speaking Switzerland[27], Baden-Württemberg[28], Alsace[29], Liechtenstein[30], Aosta Valley[31], Colonia Tovar[32], Piedmont[33]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/GSW[34]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[35]
- Dialect of: German[36]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[37], masculine[38], neuter[39]
- Uses capitalization for: noun[40]
- Related category: Category:Alemannic pronunciation[41]
- Category for music in this language: Category:Alemannic-language music[42]
Why It Matters
Alemannic has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Alemannic is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]