St. Gallen German
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Switzerland ( Canton St. Gallen ) | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
gsw (Swiss German) |
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gsw |
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The St. Galler-German is the eastern high-Alemannic dialect in Eastern Switzerland St. Gallen Canton is spoken. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of the canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen German is by no means uniform. A distinction must be made between the dialect of the Fürstenland , Toggenburg , Sarganserland and the St. Gallen Rhine Valley . The latter partially forms the transition dialect to Vorarlberg .
In particular, the dialect of the City of St. Gallen region differs greatly from the other St. Gallen German dialects due to the "pointed" nasal pronunciation of the vowels and is often imitated by other Swiss people as typical St. Gallen.
Characteristic are the hard pronounced affricata , which decrease towards the east and which hardly occur at all on the Austrian border. This is the reason why the Swiss often confuse Vorarlbergers with the St. Gallen people.
literature
Scientific grammars
- Jakob Berger: The sounds of the dialects of the St. Gallen Rhine Valley and the neighboring Vorarlberg areas. Huber, Frauenfeld 1913 (contributions to Swiss German grammar III).
- Ernst Hausknecht: The vowels of the stem syllables in the dialects of the city of St. Gallen and the Fürstenland. Huber, Frauenfeld [1908] (the complete work was not printed).
- Wilhelm Wiget : The sounds of the Toggenburg dialects. Huber, Frauenfeld 1916 (contributions to Swiss German grammar IX).