Swiss Standard German
The concurrent usage of Swiss Standard German and Swiss German dialects has been called a typical case of diglossia, although this term is often reserved to language pairs where the vernacular has lower prestige than the other, while Swiss German dialects do not meet this criterion as they permeate every socio-economic class of society. Since Swiss Standard German is the usual written language and the Swiss German dialects are the usual spoken language, their interrelation has sometimes been called a "medial diglossia" instead.