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| Standardization of Swiss German doesn't mean that you have to pick a dialect and make it official, it's just bringing together all the common points of Swiss German that differentiate them from High German and make it a new standardized language. This is a job of linguists that I'm sure there are plenty of them in this country. | |
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At the rate the Germans are moving into Switzerland, Swiss German will eventually die out. And I don't mean that sarcastically - most people have absolutely no idea how much of the original Swiss-German vocabulary has already been lost in the last 100 or so years. I grew up in the canton of Thurgau on Lake Constance. My grandparents had a drastically different dialect than I do despite the fact that they grew up in the same area. Close to all specifically Thurgovian vocabulary has disappeared. My dialect seems to be so close to Southern German or High German that locals constantly start talking High German with me here in Basel even though I initiated the conversation in what I believed was Swiss German.
The same goes for the Allemanic dialect in Southern Germany which has all but disappeared. It can only be found in isolated areas and is spoken mainly by older generations.
Apart from that, I doubt that linguists (being one myself) are very keen on creating new artificial languages after what happened to Esperanto etc.