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Germany is similar. Especially in more rural areas, a couple villages away people are going to have a hard time understanding you. Though there's typically a c
by lompad 1y ago
Germany is similar. Especially in more rural areas, a couple villages away people are going to have a hard time understanding you.
Though there's typically a common dialect variant everybody speaks, usually the one spoken by the largest city in the region.
E.g. every middle-franconian understands Nuremberg franconian dialect and is able to talk in a way they would understand.
- yieldcrv 1y agoI'm American My ear has just gotten to the point of noticing German dialects, and spotting the quizzical looks of other German/Austrian/Swiss people in the group Fascinating. I feel like they had 1,000 years to resolve this
- fakedang 1y agoHeck, Swiss German is like this lol. My cofounder's wife, during a parents together at school, was "advised" by some of the mothers to not "hang around those" mothers because they're stranger folk. Turns out, they lived 1.5 miles away in the next village.
- jason-johnson 1y agowell, if you ignore the current country borders then "German" would encompass a large portion of Switzerland and the Netherlands. So, with that assumption, I would be surprised if Italian had more dialects than German.