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 ...

Proficiency in a ‘local’ language (‘local’ being the key word here) is a requirement residence permits and, even more so, for ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This paper presents evidence for two claims: (a) that the underlying contrast between stops in Swiss German dialects is based purely on quantity and (b) that the duration of the stop closure is its ...

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 ...

EUROPE Is the home of the idea that people who see themselves as a nation should have a country. And very often those countries have seen themselves linguistically: France is the home of those who ...

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 ...