Bärndütsch

Cantons: BE · Bern

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”.

Programmes and films in which this dialect is mostly what you hear. Checked links — we record nothing ourselves.

Der BestatterSRF
DialectBärndütschA few voicesRead from a scriptStandard German subtitlesAbout this
Bernese, and the series most people here have seen — the dialect a Swiss person will imitate if you ask them to do an accent.
NeumattSRF
DialectBärndütschA few voicesRead from a scriptStandard German subtitlesAbout this
Bernese, a farming family. The register of family arguments rather than of broadcasting.
Mein Name ist EugenC-Films
DialectBärndütschA few voicesRead from a scriptStandard German subtitlesAbout this
Bernese, and largely children speaking — slower and more clearly articulated than adult dialogue.
Der Goalie bin igZodiac Pictures
DialectBärndütschA few voicesRead from a scriptStandard German subtitlesAbout this
Dense Bernese, from a novel written in it. The title is a grammar lesson: the verb is `bin` and the pronoun comes last.

Forms Heidi's own check actually tells apart. On the left the local form, on the right the Zurich one.

Computed from the branch, the cantons and the reference town — no new claims about the dialect itself.