ISO 639-3 · gswgsw
Indo-European family
Alemannic
Alemannisch
Alemannic is a language of the High German branch (Indo-European), spoken in Austria, Germany, Venezuela and Italy and 3 more countries. Wikidata counts about 10 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
gsw- Glottocode
alem1243- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 48.00, 8.50
- Wikipedia
- 77 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
7countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Alemannic · Alemannisch |
|---|---|
| Also called | Alemannic German |
| All speakers | 10,000,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Alemannic
The branches above Alemannic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Austria
deuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalromRomaniIndo-European · 46 mDefinitely endangeredhunHungarianUralic · 12.6 m1 · NationalhrvCroatianIndo-European · 7 m1 · NationalslvSloveneIndo-European · 2.4 m1 · NationalwaeWalser Germanunclassified · 22,7806b · ThreatenedyecYenishIndo-European · 16,0006a · VigorousasqAustrian Sign Languageunclassified5 · Developing