Low Alemannic German

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Low Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic dialects and belongs to the German language, even though they are only partly intelligible to German speakers.

Variants:

dialects of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, and Alemán Coloniero spoken in Venezuela
Alsatian, spoken in the Alsace, France
Basel German, spoken in Basel, Switzerland

[edit] Features

The feature that distinguishes Low Alemannic from High Alemannic is the retention of Germanic /k/, for instance kalt 'cold' vs. High Alemannic chalt.

The feature that distinguishes Low Alemannic from Swabian is the retention of the Middle High German monophthongs, for instance Huus 'house' vs. Swabian Hous or Ziit 'time' vs. Swabian Zejt.