Swiss Standard German
| Swiss Standard German | |
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| Swiss High German | |
| Schweizer Standarddeutsch Schweizer Hochdeutsch |
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| Pronunciation |
[ˈʃʋaɪtsərˌʃtandarddɔɪtʃ], [ˈʃʋaɪtsərˌhoːxdɔɪtʃ] |
| Region | Switzerland, Liechtenstein |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | de-CH |
Swiss Standard German (German: Schweizer Standarddeutsch), or Swiss High German (German: Schweizer Hochdeutsch or Schweizerhochdeutsch), referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or Hochdeutsch, is one of four official languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian and Romansh. It is a variety of Standard German, used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It is mainly written, and rather less often spoken.
Swiss Standard German is not a German dialect, but a variety of standard German. It is not to be confused with Swiss German, an umbrella term for the various Alemannic German dialects (in the sense of "traditional regional varieties") that are the default everyday languages in German-speaking Switzerland.
German is a pluricentric language. In contrast with other local varieties of German, Swiss Standard German has distinctive features in all linguistic domains: not only in phonology, but also in vocabulary, syntax, morphology and orthography. These characteristics of Swiss Standard German are called Helvetisms. Besides influences from Alemannic German, those characteristics include extensive use of loan words from Romance languages, especially French.
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