Re: A sketch with the best-known Swiss tongue twister

From: Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:11:49 +0100

Yes, the right English names are "Swiss High German" for de-CH, and "Swiss
German" for gsw-CH.

Mark

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Tom Gewecke via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org
> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 9, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode <
> unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
> >
> > So the "best-known Swiss tongue" is still not so much known, and still
> incorrectly referenced (frequently confused with "Swiss German", which is
> much like standard High German
>
> I think Swiss German is in fact the correct English name for the Swiss
> dialects, taken from the German Schweizerdeutsch.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German
>
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