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German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
English: A map describing the principal dialect groupings of German (that is to be precise, the Westgermanic dialects of which Standard High German is the Dachsprache) after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans from the East. P. Wiesinger: Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte. In: Dialektologie.
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch [ˈhoːxˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃ] ⓘ) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein ...
Also - probably most exact map of the German linguistic area - the dialect map "the spreading of the Germans in Europe had completely large influence 1844-1888" (Heinrich Nabert, 1890), which developed in the course of 30 years and which was presented as reproduction with the federation for German writing and language 1994 (series of ...
World map showing countries where a Germanic language is the primary or official language ... Mexico and Australia. A German dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, ...
High Alemannic, Lake Constance Alemannic and Highest Alemannic dialects exclusively use the Ach-Laut. In most Alemannic dialects, the past participle of the verb meaning to be (sein in standard German, with past participle gewesen) derives from a form akin to gesein (gsi, gsìnn, gsei etc.).
A map showing the German dialect area with black/white squares indicating the Ich-Laut and the Ach-Laut. Ich-Laut is the voiceless palatal fricative (which is found in the word ich [ɪç] 'I'), and ach-Laut is the voiceless velar fricative (which is found in the word ach [ax] the interjection 'oh', 'alas').
Highest Alemannic German, including the Bernese Oberland dialects and Walliser German; Bavarian. Northern Bavarian (including Nuremberg) Central Bavarian (including Munich and Vienna) Southern Bavarian (including Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, and Bolzano, Italy) Hutterite German aka "Tirolean" Mócheno; Cimbrian; Central German languages. West Central ...