From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 67555
Date: 2011-05-14
>> Some dialects are close or very close to the[...]
>> artificial-standard language, other dialects are so
>> different, that one might be prompted deem them as
>> separate languages. Thus, most of German- speaking people
>> live in diglossies. In Switzerland and Luxemburg, they
>> have 2 different artificial/Hochdeutsch German langauges;
>> in Swiss TV, they use both intermittently, the one they
>> share with Vienna and Berlin and the one which is sort of
>> a common Swiss Alemanian dialect understood and spoken by
>> everybody and understood to a considerable extent by
>> South Germans, esp. those living in Allgäu, Württemberg
>> and Baden, as well as by Tyrol and Vorarlberg Austrians.
>> Compared with these phenomena, English, esp. in NorthEh? He's quite correct. Indeed, the observation is a
>> America, is a "homogenous"/"uniform" language, from coast
>> to coast. :)
> You can't have spent much time in the country there.