Glarnertüütsch
Cantons: GL · Glarus
The three branches
Branch: Highest Alemannic
The alpine valleys: Valais, Glarus, Uri and Unterwalden, the Walser settlements. The most conservative and the hardest for an outsider, because old forms survive here that vanished from the Mittelland long ago.
The line that draws it
- In this branch
- schniie
- Next door
- schneie
- 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
Forms Heidi's own check actually tells apart. On the left the local form, on the right the Zurich one.
- schüüschön
Where this one sits
Computed from the branch, the cantons and the reference town — no new claims about the dialect itself.
Same branch
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.
- Verein Glarner Mundartwörterbuch (ed.) 2024. Glarner Mundartwörterbuch. Baeschlin, Glarus. Grammatiken und Wörterbücher des Schweizerdeutschen 17.