Upper German
adjEtymology Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch
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of the Upper German dialects
Upper German
nounEtymology Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch
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One of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.
- Coordinate terms
- Central German, Middle German, Low German
- Holonyms
- High German
- Meronyms
- EUG, Alemannic, Alemannic German, Bavarian, Swabish, Swabian, Upper Franconian, WUG