Original sentence: In Austria and Liechtenstein, both of which are primarily German-speaking countries, the situation is less extreme, but nevertheless, there are very few who would call Swiss, Austrians, or Liechtensteiners merely Volksdeutsche, if only because it sounds like pan-German nationalism and also because it may offend or belittle them.They write formally in Standard German, but in many respects have hewn a separate national identity built upon their long history of stable, alpine, isolationist, multinationalist neutrality and their various Swiss German language dialects
Edited sentence: In Austria and Liechtenstein, both of which are primarily German-speaking countries, the situation is less extreme, but nevertheless, there are very few who would call Swiss, Austrians, or Liechtensteiners Volksdeutsche, if only because it sounds like pan-German nationalism and also because it may offend or belittle them.They write formally in Standard German, but in many respects have hewn a separate national identity built upon their long history of stable, alpine, isolationist, multinationalist neutrality and their various Swiss German language dialects, which are basically incomprehensible to someone who speaks only Standard German