Kaixo! Li Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:01:48 -0400, Henry H. Tan-Tenn share2002nov@lomaji.com scrijheut:
HH T> One could, for example, problematize the claim that the German HH T> at de.wikipedia.org serves all the linguistic varieties subsumed under HH T> that name, say Schweizerdeutsch.
It does not; "Schweizedeutsch" is not a variety of German ("Hochdeutsch") but of Alemanic. "Schweizedeutsch" is related to Alsatian (which has a wikipedia of its own, btw), and not to German.
the confusion arises maybe because, while in Switzerland "Schweizedeutsch" is *spoken* it is usually not *written*, but German is used to write instead.
The article [[Alemannic German]] says that "Swiss German" is a "High Alemanic" variety; while "Alsatian" and "Swabian" are of "Low Alemanic".