German Language Resources for Students and Teachers: German Language and Dialects

Learn about German and its use throughout the world.

Thanks to H. Flippo for compiling this interesting dictionary.

The Deutsche Welle provides audiofiles of a plethora of German dialects.

The site, produced by the Deutsches Spracharchiv (DSAv) of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) offers audiofiles of dialects. Can you identify them?

The Insitute für Sprachwissenschaft of the Universität Augsburg maintains this list of words that vary by dialect in the German-speaking countries.

This site offers audiofiles of representative dialects from the sixteen Bundesländer.

This source offers information on the distribution of German everyday vocabulary across German regions.