Swabian German

Swabian
Swabian
Schwäbisch[1]
Native to	Germany[1]
Native speakers	820,000 (2006)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Irminonic High German Alemannic German[1] Swabian; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (German alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	swg
Glottolog	swab1242
IETF	swg[3]
	Areas where Alemannic dialects are spoken Swabian

Swabian German (Schwäbisch ) is an Alemannic German dialect. It is mainly spoken in Swabia in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg. It's also spoken in the capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region and southwest Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).

References

"Swabian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
Swabian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
"Swabian". IANA language subtag registry. 29 July 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

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