page_title: Swabia
section_title: Language
hierarchical_section_title: Swabia / Swabian people / Language
caption_attribution_description: English: The traditional distribution area of the western upper German (=alemannic) dialects in the 19th and 20th century. Source: Mainly these articles in the German wikipedia: * Alemannische Dialekte * Grenzorte des alemannischen Dialektraums * Traditionell rätoromanischsprachiges Gebiet Graubündens and * Sprachen und Dialekte in der Region Elsass, plus the (newer) literature, which is mentioned there. This area, having been quite stable for at least some 300 years up to the 19th century, saw consecutively more or less strong changes by industrialisation, population growth, migrations and political developments. Deutsch: Das traditionelle Verbreitungsgebiet der westoberdeutschen (=alemannischen) Dialekte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Grundlage: vor allem diese Artikel der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia: * Alemannische Dialekte * Grenzorte des alemannischen Dialektraums * Traditionell rätoromanischsprachiges Gebiet Graubündens und * Sprachen und Dialekte in der Region Elsass, sowie die dort jeweils genannte (jüngere) Literatur. Das bis ins 19. Jahrhundert für mindestens etwa 300 Jahre stabile Gebiet erfuhr nachfolgend durch Industrialisierung, Bevölkerungszuwächse und -bewegungen sowie politische Entwicklungen mehr oder weniger starke Änderungen. Français&#160;: Le secteur de distribution traditionnel des dialectes allemands supérieurs occidentaux (=alémannique) au 19e et 20e siècle. Source&#160;: Principalement ces articles dans le wikipedia allemand&#160;: * Alemannische Dialekte * Grenzorte des alemannischen Dialektraums * Traditionell rätoromanischsprachiges Gebiet Graubündens et * Sprachen und Dialekte in der Region Elsass, plus la littérature (plus jeune), qui est mentionnée là. Ce secteur, après avoir été stable jusqu'au 19e siècle pour au moins environ 300 années, scie consécutivement des changements plus ou moins forts par industrialisation, croissance démographique, migrations et développements politiques. Italiano: Area di distribuzione storica delle varianti linguistiche alto-tedesche occidentali(alemanniche) nel diciannovesimo e ventesimo secolo. Fonti: questa mappa si basa prevalentemente sui seguenti articoli in Wikipedia di lingua tedesca: * Alemannische Dialekte * Grenzorte des alemannischen Dialektraums * Traditionell rätoromanischsprachiges Gebiet Graubündens and * Sprachen und Dialekte in der Region Elsass, in aggiunta alla letteratura più recente menzionata in quegli articoli. Questa area, dopo essere rimasta piuttosto stabile per circa trecento anni fino all'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo, ha poi visto trasformazioni di diversa intensità causate dall'industrializzazione, dalla crescita demografica, dai processi migratori e dagli sviluppi politici.
context_page_description: Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.
  The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of Swabia, one of the German stem duchies, representing the territory of Alemannia, whose inhabitants interchangeably were called Alemanni or Suebi.
  This territory would include all of the Alemannic German area, but the modern concept of Swabia is more restricted, due to the collapse of the duchy of Swabia in the thirteenth century. Swabia as understood in modern ethnography roughly coincides with the Swabian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire as it stood during the Early Modern period, now divided between the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
  Swabians are the natives of Swabia and speakers of Swabian German. Their number was estimated at close to 0.8 million by SIL Ethnologue as of 2006, compared to a total population of 7.5 million in the regions of Tübingen, Stuttgart and Bavarian Swabia.
context_section_description: SIL Ethnologue cites an estimate of 819,000 Swabian speakers as of 2006. This corresponds to roughly 10% of the total population of the Swabian region, or roughly 1% of the total population of Germany.
  As an ethno-linguistic group, Swabians are closely related to other speakers of Alemannic German, i.e. Badeners, Alsatians, and German-speaking Swiss.
  Swabian German is traditionally spoken in the upper Neckar basin (upstream of Heilbronn), along the upper Danube between Tuttlingen and Donauwörth, and on the left bank of the Lech, in an area centered on the Swabian Alps roughly stretching from Stuttgart to Augsburg.
  Many Swabian surnames end with the suffixes -le, -(l)er, -el, -ehl, and -lin, typically from the Middle High German diminutive suffix -elîn (Modern Standard German -lein). Examples would be: Schäuble, Egeler, Rommel, and Gmelin. The popular German surname Schwab as well as Svevo in Italy are derived from this area, both meaning literally "Swabian".
caption: The traditional distribution area of Western Upper German ( = Alemannic) dialect features in the nineteenth and twentieth century
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