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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Can anone identify this language?
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In article <5camut$t53@svgotcha.ubs.net>,
Patrick Meyer  <crunchy.frog@swix.ch> wrote:
>sounds like a dialect from the French dpartement 'Alcace'. Their dialect 
>is a mixture between Swissgerman and French.

1) It may sound like Alsatian to you, but another poster has correctly
identified it as Afrikaans.
2) <Alsace>, not <Alcace>.  (German <Elsass>).
3) All Swiss-German dialects are Alemannic, but not all Alemannic dialects
are Swiss-German.  Further more, all Swiss-German dialects are classed as
either "High Alemannic" or "Highest Alemannic" (German <Hoechst-
alemannisch); Alsatian, like most forms of Badish spoken across the Rhine,
is "Low Alemannic".

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