Schwabisch

Swabian
Schwäbisch
Native to	Germany
Native speakers	820,000 (2006)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Alemannic Swabian
Writing system	Latin (German alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	swg
Glottolog	swab1242
IETF	swg
Areas where Alemannic dialects are spoken   Swabian
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Swabian (Schwäbisch (help·info)) is one of the dialect groups of Alemannic German that belong to the High German dialect continuum. It is mainly spoken in Swabia which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including e.g. its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria (Bavarian Swabia). Furthermore, Swabian German dialects are spoken by Caucasus Germans in Transcaucasia. The dialects of the Danube Swabian population of Hungary, the former Yugoslavia and Romania are only nominally Swabian and can be traced back not only to Swabian but also to Frankonian, Bavarian and Hessian German dialects, with locally varying degrees of influence of the initial dialects.