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Name: Schwyzerdütsch

Alternate Names: Upper Alemannic; Schwytzertuetsch; Alemannisch; Alemannic

Spoken in: Liechtenstein, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy

Number of speakers: 4,640,000 in Switzerland (2000 census). Population total all countries: 6,469,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 200 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 6044000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: gsw

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Subgroup: Alemannic (alem)

Child Dialects: Graubenden-Grisons; Valserisch (gsw-gra) Alsatian; Alsacien; Elsaessisch (gsw-als) High Alemannisch; Hochalemannisch (gsw-hig) Obwald (gsw-obw) St. Gallen (gsw-stg) Bern; German (Bern); Bärndütsch (gsw-ber) Basel (gsw-bas) Zurich; German (Zurich) (gsw-zur) Wallis (gsw-wal) Appenzell; German (Appenzell) (gsw-app) Lucerne (gsw-luc) Low Alemannisch; Lower Alemannic (gsw-low)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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