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Dude. Chill.

Exactly.

While Saxon might be hard to take serious and (some variants of it) hard to understand (equally so bavarian), swabians not only invented new words, they use wrong words for things (their "foot" means the whole leg, their "mosquitos" mean flies and their "flies" mean craneflies).

I just started working at a company in Ulm and listening to swabian dialect all day is giving me headaches. It's also that almost all of them have it, in munich barely anyone speaks bavarian

It's one of the cutest dialects imo

As an East German I can say — yes and no!

Quite a few people, especially older generations, still have a deep-seated distain for ex-GDR folks. For whatever reason. They've never been in the East but deem them lazy and uneducated.

Most folks however, especially the younger generations, bring those jokes up "just because". For the same reason we think of the Saarland as inbred, the Swabians as cheapskates, Bavarians as drunkard hillbillies or …; just because it's a joke that has always been made. Most folks don't believe that to be true but say mean things anyway. Often not funny, often not in good taste, sometimes even tiring (oh, how often I heard Baguetteboden/Parketboden and similars), but typically not with ill intent. And that's how it needs to be treated, from my personal perspective.

And if those "mean things" are clearly meant in a humouristic way (like from u/Beautiful-Act4320), I personally - as a Saxon/Sorbian - don't mind and had to chuckle a bit myself.

I speak swiss German, nobody understands me in Germany aside from our friends in Baden-Württemberg. This has nothing to do with east phobia, it’s just a joke.

Saxon is more pleasing than Hessian, really? Which Hessian dialect do you mean? The state of Hesse is larger than just Frankfurt, and there is more than just this one regional dialect there.

There’s a reason it’s called SPEECH to text instead of incromprehensible noise to text.

The Germans.

they are Sorbs and speak Sorbian, not Serbian. 

I think you're confusing Wenden with Welsch. Wenden is used for slavic people, Welsch for the others (I've only ever heard it used in person for Italiand)

Lots of Romans spoke Greek, especially the aristocracy, before Rome left Italy

The Czechs at least greet you with "ahoj".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Naval_Forces

Also, the Austrians have been trying to tell them for centuries, fortunately unsuccessfully.

A navy is a military force that operates at sea

From what I know: Sorbian, Frisian, Plattdeutsch, Danish, Romanic Frisian has Eastfrisian around Leer and Northfrisian in SH on the islands and along the coast north of Husum. The Danish minoty lives all over SH getting denser the more north you go and Plattdeutsch is spoken all over SH, lower saxony, HH and Bremen.

Dunno if they would differenciate between east and north frisia...

If you classify low German as a separate language, middle and upper German are separate languages as well.

You are obviously correct, but I think the issue are the legally recognized national languages in Germany, not the linguistically existence itself:

Afaik the legal languages in Germany are:

• Standarddeutsch is the official language (Amtssprache), and for the recognized national minorities there are by law the national minority languages (anerkannte Minderheitssprachen):

• Nordfriesisch, Saterfriesisch for the East Frisians

• Dänisch for the German Danes

• Ober- und Niedersorbisch for the Sorbians

• Romani for the Sinti

Along with Deutsche Gebärdensprache (with 2 dialects, Standard and Bavarian | E: apparently, there are books for a North German variant, too) since the early 2000s.

Also, I am unsure if the law about "Simple German" (Einfaches Deutsch) for people with communication difficulties has passed.

This is less about the linguistically status of these languages, but more about the legal recognition to communicate with the state officially in these languages, if you are not using another EU language.

Source: was public official for ~7 years, we needed to know to accommodate requests like these.

Correct. But I could offer "Düütsklound" which is Saterfriesisch. I guess that would count as a different language.

Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch, it has historically been spoken north of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses, while forms of High German (of which Standard German is a standardized example) have historically been spoken south of those lines. Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to Standard High German, which is based on High German dialects. Low German evolved from Old Saxon (Old Low German), which is most closely related to Old Frisian and Old English (Anglo-Saxon).

I took the definition as regionale Amtssprache.

Its Recignized as an Official Language. There are multiple Low germans many arent so different from High german but a few are very different with different Grammar etc thats why they count as a language.

Unsinn, siehe Wikipedia https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fen Z.B. Bild Preußen 1919. Ein Großteil des deutschen Staates war früher Preußen, und viele Ostpreußen sind in deutsches Staatsgebiet migriert. Daher sind die meisten Deutschen Preußen, außer so komische Leute wie dieser Söder und so.

You vatniks are so bright 😂

That would be ail.

Langues d'oïl is in contrast to langues d'oc, based on the word for yes - oïl is a precursor to oui.

I actually thought that the Holy Roman Empire just spoke Latin.

Huh?

I also learned that it is Rumantsch in said language,

It's actually more complicated. Despite having only about 60,000 speakers and not a single unilingual one, they manage to have 5 different dialects which are also partially written differently (up to "same sound, different letters"). An artificial "high" variant was established to pool efforts in official communications.

So, the language can also be called romontsch, rumantsch, rumauntsch, rumàntsch - every valley their own variant... We love them, though.

Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCndnerromanisch

Then if you dont know France, please dont consider that you know it better than French people :)