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-Württemberg, 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-Württemberg, 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
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It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).
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The ending "-ad" is used for verbs in the first person plural.
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It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).
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Native speakers: 820,000 (2006)
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Swabian (German: Schwäbisch [ˈʃvɛːbɪʃ] ) is one of the dialect groups of Upper German, sometimes one of the dialect groups of Alemannic German (in the broad sense), that belong to the High German dialect continuum. It is mainly spoken in Swabia, which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia).
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