GRENCHEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swatch has published a version of its annual report in the Swiss-German dialect for which there is no standard written form, the latest act of rebellion from the ...

In Switzerland's Graubunder canton, a tribe of people living high in the mountains -- retain the German dialect and customs of their ancestors. Grilled local mushrooms on bread, village of Tenna, ...

How do you like those Apfelüberrests? Cambridge researcher develops smartphone app to map Swiss-German dialects Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Zurich and Bern have developed a ...

Anyone living here should at least be able to understand some of the language spoken around them. Here’s a short list of some typical and lovely expressions from the local dialect. Swiss German is an ...

Vol. 17, No. 4, Language Dissertation No. 34: Swiss German Dialect and Romance Patois (Oct. - Dec., 1941), pp. 3+8-75 (69 pages) Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), has ...

Experience literature like you’ve never heard it before! As part of Georgia Tech’s German course “Einführung in die Literatur ...

If former President Barack Obama can invent the Austrian language, then Sen. Cory Booker can invent the Swiss one. Mr. Booker’s awkward exchange on the campaign trail with a radio reporter in Cedar ...

SCUOL, Switzerland — Heading home in the afternoon shadows cast by the surrounding snow-clad peaks, schoolchildren throng the streets of this remote Alpine town, chattering in what sounds like Italian ...

Darryl Myers offers a rich and interesting comment on my Lingua Franca post last Thursday, observing that German is a interesting case to look at. It is indeed. Splitters (those who incline toward ...