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Also not that simple because of dialect continuums, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum In the
by zogwarg 11y ago
Also not that simple because of dialect continuums,
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_continuum
In the case of french, say:
- Metropolitan and Canadian might understand each other
- Metropolitan and Sub-Saharan too
- but Canadian and Sub-Saharan not so much
- allendoerfer 11y agoSwiss understand High German, because it is basically the language they write, but somebody from Hannover will have a hard time trying to understand somebody from Bern. You get used to it after a while and Swiss people will try to meet you halfway and speak a bit less dialect (which then sounds strange to other Swiss people). They have some words that are different but Germans normally get. As with AE and BE, it gets funny when the same words have totally different meanings. On that note: Swiss-German is one form of Alemannic, a dialect also spoken in South-Western Germany, varying from region to region as it does in Switzerland, but do not call it a dialect, they see it as a separate language.