How do you like those Apfelüberrests? Cambridge researcher develops smartphone app to map Swiss-German dialects Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Zurich and Bern have developed a ...

EUROPE Is the home of the idea that people who see themselves as a nation should have a country. And very often those countries have seen themselves linguistically: France is the home of those who ...

GRENCHEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swatch has published a version of its annual report in the Swiss-German dialect for which there is no standard written form, the latest act of rebellion from the ...

ZURICH—As kids return to school in Val Müstair, high in the eastern tip of the Swiss Alps, they are also entering the front lines of a bitter battle: the fight over the future of a centuries-old Latin ...

This paper presents evidence for two claims: (a) that the underlying contrast between stops in Swiss German dialects is based purely on quantity and (b) that the duration of the stop closure is its ...