Historiker
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ORIGINAL: Historiker swiss is a german dialect. A very harsh dialect, but still just a dialect. But its about to get an own language, just a few hundred more years and it will be. Like Dutch and German... I thought they had their own language already called Rumantsch? My mom's side of the family is half Swiss German. It is nothing but a dialect, like for instance bavarian. They still speak "High German" in television and learn it at school - as well as they write High German. Its part of history. Austria, the dutch Netherlands and Belgium, Switzerland and the german Luxemburg (Luxemburg was actually bigger than nowadays, the french part is now part of france) are all part of historic Germany (as well as several other parts like southern Tyrolia, Elsaß, Sudetenland...). They broke away one after another. All of them don't like to hear that any more, as part their national emanzipation, but the historic facts are - facts... As a german, I can understand most Dutch if I concentrate, as this language was nothing but one of many German dialects. By being seperated for several centuries, the gap has widened. But I bet anyone in Friesland (North Western Germany) can still understand Dutch better than rural Bavarian. While any irredentistic movements - especially German ones - are gone in Europe, its just a matter of time until the swiss will start to officially allow writing in their dialect, which will begin the official separation of "switzerdütsch" into an own language. So far, their cultural ministers had still taken part in German writing conferences, as well as the Austrian's, when the writing of German language was ment to be reformed. But as said, the end of that is coming within the next two centures, maybe already within a few decades.
< Message edited by Historiker -- 10/10/2010 9:40:24 PM >
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