Aargauerdütsch
Cantons: AG · Aarau
The three branches
Branch: High Alemannic
The Mittelland and the east: Zurich, Bern, Aargau, Solothurn, St. Gallen. The largest group — and the one people mean when they say “Swiss German”.
The line that draws it
- In this branch
- schneie
- Next door
- schniie
- Standard German
- schneien
What it sounds like
Nothing checked in the register for this dialect yet. Better nothing than a link nobody has listened to.
Every listening sourceHow to recognise them
Heidi cannot yet recognise this dialect by specific forms. Nothing here, rather than something plausible.
Start with Baseldytsch instead, 39 km away — Heidi knows forms from there →
Where this one sits
Computed from the branch, the cantons and the reference town — no new claims about the dialect itself.
Sources
- Hotzenköcherle, Schläpfer, Trüb, Zinsli (eds.) 1997. Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (SDS). Francke, Bern. Eight volumes, 1962–1997; over 1,500 maps from fieldwork carried out 1939–1958, covering the Alemannic dialects of Switzerland and the Walser dialects of northern Italy.
- Christen, Glaser & Friedli (eds.) 2010. Kleiner Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz. Huber, Frauenfeld. The condensed, general-readership edition of the SDS.
- Leemann, Steiner, Studerus, Oberholzer, Jeszenszky, Tomaschek & Kistler 2025. Dialäktatlas: 1950 bis heute. vdf, Zollikon. 1,000 speakers at 125 locations surveyed 2020–21, compared with the SDS.
- Hotzenköcherle, R. (ed. Bigler & Schläpfer) 1984. Die Sprachlandschaften der deutschen Schweiz. Sauerländer, Aarau.
- Meng, H. 1986. Mundartwörterbuch der Landschaft Baden im Aargau. Baden. Grammatiken und Wörterbücher des Schweizerdeutschen 10.