Upper German

Summary

Upper German is a dialect^[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (287 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Upper German is in the country of Germany^[3].
• Upper German is in the country of Switzerland^[4].
• Upper German is in the country of Austria^[5].
• Upper German is in the country of France^[6].
• Upper German is in the country of Italy^[7].
• Upper German is in the country of Liechtenstein^[8].
• Upper German's instance of is recorded as dialect^[9].
• Upper German's GND ID is recorded as 4133389-5^[10].
• Upper German's subclass of is recorded as High German^[11].
• Upper German's writing system is recorded as Latin script^[12].
• Upper German's Commons category is recorded as Upper German languages^[13].
• Upper German's language of work or name is recorded as German^[14].
• Upper German's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037pdf^[15].
• Upper German's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Upper German languages^[16].
• Upper German's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[17].
• Upper German's Glottolog code is recorded as high1286^[18].
• Upper German's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'gsw', 'text': 'Owerdeitsch'}^[19].
• Upper German's distribution map is recorded as Oberdeutsche Mundarten.png^[20].
• Upper German's BabelNet ID is recorded as 02448505n^[21].
• Upper German's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133070336^[22].
• Upper German's Ethnologue language family ID is recorded as 210^[23].

Why It Matters

Upper German ranks in the top 5% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (287 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[25]