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Liechtenstein
's official language is German, and the
principality
is the smallest of the four countries in Europe populated by a majority of
German
speakers.
German and Alemannic
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The local
German dialect
is
Alemannic
, a dialect (sometimes considered a language) belonging to a highly divergent group including
Swiss German
(spoken by all Swiss-Germans, the majority of the country),
Alsatian
(spoken in the
Alsace
region of France),
Germans
living in
Baden-Wurttemberg
and
Bavarian Swabia
, and
Austrians
living in
Vorarlberg
. Eighty-six percent of the country is "ethnic Alemannic", and are speakers of the language.
Highest Alemannic
is spoken in the south of the country, and
High Alemannic
in the rest of the country. It can be difficult to achieve
mutual intelligibility
between Alemannic and
Standard German
, especially with the Highest Alemannic variety.
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