Sentence examples for german dialect from inspiring English sources
People here speak a German dialect, incomprehensible to outsiders.
Residents speak a German dialect to one another.
In 1872 he began writing humorous verses for periodicals and newspapers in a Pennsylvania German dialect.
In Luxembourg, Letzenburgish, a German dialect, is the spoken language of the majority.
Yiddish, itself a German dialect, was the most widely spoken, but it represented diaspora and weakness.
The people of Holstein are mostly descendants of the Saxons and speak a Low German dialect.
German dialects, traditional local varieties traced back to the Germanic tribes, are distinguished from varieties of standard German by their lexicon, phonology, and syntax.
The rise of France extinguished most of Germanic control west of the Rhine, a process facilitated by German divisions; German dialects remain in use in France only in Alsace and parts of Lorraine.
Swiss German language, German Schweizer Deutsch, Swiss German Schwyzertütsch, collective name for the great variety of Alemannic (Upper German) dialects spoken in Switzerland north of the boundary between the Romance and Germanic languages, in Liechtenstein, in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg, and in parts of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Alsace in France.
The modern Low German dialects developed from Old Saxon.
In fiction he could reconjure what was lost, including German dialects.
