Swiss Standard German | |
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Swiss High German[note 1] | |
Schweizer Standarddeutsch Schweizer Hochdeutsch, Schweizerhochdeutsch | |
Pronunciation | [ˈʃʋaɪtsərˌʃtandarddɔɪtʃ], [ˈʃʋaɪtsərˌhoːxdɔɪtʃ] |
Region | Switzerland, Liechtenstein |
Ethnicity | Swiss (Liechtensteiners) |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | de-CH |
Swiss Standard German[1][2][3] (SSG; German: Schweizer Standarddeutsch),[4] or Swiss High German[5][6][7][note 1] (German: Schweizer Hochdeutsch[8] or Schweizerhochdeutsch[9]), referred to by the Swiss as Schriftdeutsch, or German: Hochdeutsch, is the written form of one (German) of four national languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and Romansh.[10] It is a variety of Standard German, used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in Liechtenstein. It is mainly written, and rather less often spoken.
Swiss Standard German differs from 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.
Standard German is a pluricentric language. In contrast with other local varieties of Standard 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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