Hochdeutsch (standard German) is what's taught in schools, and what you hear on mainstream TV. But a huge variety of dialects are alive and thriving - especially in Bavaria - says Augsburg local Nic ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

Dialects enrich the German language. They create sense of belonging and show regional diversity. In this episode, we talk to linguist Leo Kretzenbacher and Philipp Hockenberger from Hofbräuhaus ...

Swiss German often sounds completely different between Zurich, Valais and Schaffhausen — and yet it connects many people in ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that ...

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...

Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

FREDERICKSBURG — In a tidy wooden kitchen that smells of bread, Elizabeth Behrend slices a hard sausage she's just cut down from the smokehouse and tells about the time she and her husband, August, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether ...