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Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.
by noipv4 5y ago
Lol, it's German. There is no Swiss language. We speak German, French, Italian and Romansch here.
- eru 5y ago(Spoken) Swiss German might as well be its own language. At least since we are already accepting Dutch being different from (Low) German. Of course in this case, the write-up is in standard high German. Google Translate handles that just fine.
- denysvitali 5y agoThe problem there is that there is no standardization across all the Swiss German variations, for foreigners, this is an interesting comparison of 5 of these dialects: https://youtu.be/nEAcepckl5U https://youtu.be/nEAcepckl5U
- eru 5y agoYes. I suppose the lack of standardization is a consequence of Swiss German not having a long history of cross-regional use in national media (be that print or radio or TV).
- Shacklz 5y ago> We speak German The Germans might see that a bit different than us ;) Jokes aside, the article was of course in German.
- watwut 5y agoPeople who speak German regularly dont understand Swiss German as it is different.
- yannvon 5y agoSure, but this was not Swiss German.
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- sschueller 5y agoSame goes for Swiss from different regions. You know it's bad when they add German subtitles to a Swiss person talking Swiss German so other Swiss Germans understand it.
- anthk 5y agoIt may happen the same way with random Spanish speakers on the Chilean, Argentinian or the Murcian dialect if they are not exposed to them.
- rorykoehler 5y agoI never had a problem when I went to Switzerland. My German isn’t even fluent
- hmsshagatsea 5y agoSuisse Dutsch might as well be its own language.
- disabled 5y agoThere are several localized Swiss dialects and there are some Swiss German formal written publications in these local Swiss dialects that other Alemannic German readers have trouble understanding.
- MisterSandman 5y agoSorry! Genuine mistake, should've probably looked it up before posting :/