Swabian

A Swabian is a native of Swabia, a place that is located in the south-west region of Germany. Swabian German is a German dialect which is closely related to other German dialects from the same region of southwest Germany: for example, Hunsr?ckisch, spoken in the Hunsr?ck region of the Rheinland-Pfalz) (and in southern Brazil), (please see Riograndenser Hunsr?ckisch); (also Bairisch, a Germanic language/dialect (depending who you ask), spoken in Bavaria (Bayern).

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"It has been evident for a long time that, of all members of all the Germanic tribes, the Swabian is the most difficult to understand and the most mysterious. In him the most intense contradictions are found. Often, in one individual, meet both extreme boldness and amazing timidity, rebelliousness and philistinism, winning kindness and resentful standoffishness, skillfulness and awkwardness, firmness and instability, mistrust and friendliness, soaring idealism and grounded realisticism."

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Swabia: Swabia (German: Schwaben) is both a historic and linguistic (see Swabian German) region in Germany. Swabia consists largely of the present-day state of Baden-W?rttemberg, as well as the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia. In the Middle Ages, Vorarlberg, the modern principality of Liechten...

Swabian German: Swabian (Schw?bisch) is one of the Alemannic dialects of High German, spoken in the region Swabia. Swabia covers much of Germany's southwestern Land (state) of Baden-W?rttemberg (including the capital Stuttgart and in the rural area known as the Swabian Alb) and in the southwest of the Land Bavaria....

German dialects: German dialect is dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects the German with the Dutch language....