Plattdeutsch (also Low German) is one of the six major dialect families of the German language. The Deutsches Sprachatlas research centre of the University of Marburg, one of the most important ...

chhhhhlapf.” Frank Roth is sounding out one of Swiss German’s less elegant sounds. The throaty rolling of the ‘ch’ is a key feature of the dialect – but it doesn’t come naturally to a ...

Benno Engel: Texas German is a combination of many different dialects in Germany, because the people that came here were from many different areas of Germany and Austria and Switzerland. We never had ...

Having studied German in college, I discovered the importance ... a 300-plus-year old dialect brought from a small corner of the world to the shores of the United States. The internet has greatly ...