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 ...

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 ...

Darryl Myers offers a rich and interesting comment on my Lingua Franca post last Thursday, observing that German is a interesting case to look at. It is indeed. Splitters (those who incline toward ...

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 ...

THIRTEEN languages in Germany are on UNESCO's endangered list. Kiezdeutsch, the argot of inner-city teenagers, is not one. “Morgen ich geh Kino,” meaning “Tomorrow I'm going to the cinema,” a young ...