In my experience, people mostly tend to hyperbolize the differences between their local dialect and "everything else" for patriotic reasons. Usually, they give

In my experience, people mostly tend to hyperbolize the differences between their local dialect and "everything else" for patriotic reasons. Usually, they give some singular words that are vastly different as examples (I suspect you can find such examples in most languages and most regions), and ignore that 99% of the vocabulary, plus the grammar and most daily sentence constructs, are equivalent (modulo the accent). A standard example in German is how the outermost bread slice is called, which differs completely from region to region, town to town, and sometimes even family to family [0]. [0] https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/10_03h.jpg https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/...