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Upper German en · ADJ

Etymology

Calque of German Oberdeutsch, oberdeutsch

Meanings

  1. (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

  1. (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)