Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Upper Germanic is a family of High Germanic languages spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Family tree Upper Germanic languages can be generally classified as Alemannic or Austro-Bavarian. However, there are several dialects or languages in these two groups besides the more standard versions of Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian. Alemannic Swiss German (mostly in Switzerland) Alsatian (in Alsace, in France) Swabian (mostly in Schwaben, in Germany) Alemán Coloneiro (in Venezuela) Walser (originally in the Wallis Canton of Switzerland) Austro-Bavarian Austro-Bavarian (mostly in Austria and in Bavaria, in Germany) Cimbrian (northeastern Italy) Mócheno (Trentino, in Italy) Hutterite German (in Canada and the United States) External link Ethnologue report for Upper Germanic This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.