Swabian is a dialect group of Upper German, part of the Alemannic branch of the High German dialect continuum, spoken mainly in central and southeastern Baden-Wurttemberg, including Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura, and in southwestern Bavaria. It had about 820,000 native speakers as of 2006, and communities of Caucasus Germans in Transcaucasia and Danube Swabians in Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and Romania also speak Swabian dialects. Standard German speakers reportedly understand only about 40 percent of spoken Swabian, reflecting its distinctive pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
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RegionSwabian German is spoken mainly in Swabia, in central and southeastern Baden-Wurttemberg, including Stuttgart, and the southwest of Bavaria. 1 Speaker CommunitySwabian German had an estimated 820,000 native speakers as of 2006. 1 Distinguishing FeaturesSwabian German verbs take the distinctive ending -ad in the first person plural, unlike Standard German conjugation. 1 Classification
Variety Kind Sources
1. Wikipedia: Swabian German
Wikimedia FoundationCharacteristics section, verb-ending note
The ending '-ad' is used for verbs in the first person plural.
Lead section, region sentence
It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Wurttemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).
Infobox, native speakers field
Native speakers: 820,000 (2006)
Variety kind, Swabian German entity page
Swabian is a dialect group of Upper German, part of the Alemannic branch of the High German dialect continuum, spoken mainly in central and southeastern Baden-Wurttemberg, including Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura, and in southwestern Bavaria.
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