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interesting to remark maybe, as a dutchman in hochdeutsch spheres, whenever i go to germanophone schweiz some inner process makes that i think i hear dutch whenever people speak schweizerdeutsch. this illusion is quickly evaporating due to not being able to understand a word, but the instinctive reaction gets me every time.
i guess it has to do dutch and schweizerdeutsch and lower german not experiencing the hochdeutsche klangverschiebung hence remaining more similar in sound and intonation..?
To me, Dutch and Schwyzrdütsch don't sound at all alike. I imagine that what you hear there (fleetingly) must be something in the vowels; consonantically, they are really very different. It's a very interesting observation nonetheless.
Oliver Schick
interesting to remark maybe, as a dutchman in hochdeutsch spheres, whenever i go to germanophone schweiz some inner process makes that i think i hear dutch whenever people speak schweizerdeutsch. this illusion is quickly evaporating due to not being able to understand a word, but the instinctive reaction gets me every time.
i guess it has to do dutch and schweizerdeutsch and lower german not experiencing the hochdeutsche klangverschiebung hence remaining more similar in sound and intonation..?