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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Upper German en · ADJ
Etymology
Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch
Meanings
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(not-comparable) of the Upper German dialects
Translations (3)
pl górnoniemiecki (relating to Upper German) · ru южнонемецкий (relating to Upper German) · de oberdeutsch (relating to Upper German)
Upper German en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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-.
Coordinates
Low German · Middle German · Central German
Holonyms
High German
Meronyms
Upper Franconian · Swabian · WUG · Swabish · Alemannic · EUG · Alemannic German · Bavarian
Translations (4)
pl dialekt górnoniemiecki (language) · de Oberdeutsch (language) · ru южнонемецкий диалект (language) · cmn 上部德語 /上部德语 (language)