r is rolled
ʁ → r| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| rot | |||
| Freund |
Swiss
The Swiss speak standard German as a foreign language they learned at school, on top of a dialect that is very different, and it shows: a rolled r, a ch that is always the throaty one, k that scrapes into kx, and — the giveaway — no final devoicing and no aspiration, so the consonants sound soft and unvoiced at once. The -er ending keeps its r.
Où: German-speaking Switzerland — the accent when speaking standard German
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Référence
Swiss
Les règles déclenchées
Mélodie et rythme
A rising melody where Germany falls — the Swiss statement often ends higher than it started, and the whole delivery is slower and more level. Stress can move to the first syllable of loanwords: 'Büro', 'Motor'.
Ce qui bouge, règle par règle
Dans l’ordre où la bouche les applique. Chaque avant/après est écoutable — cliquez sur l’API. Le motif est la règle telle que le moteur l’exécute, pour les curieux.
Consonnes
The ich-sound is the ach-sound
ç → xComment: The ch of 'Bach', everywhere. Back of the tongue against the soft palate.
Standard German splits ch into a front and a back sound. Swiss has only the back one — 'ich' scrapes the way 'ach' does.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ich | |||
| nicht | |||
| Milch |
k at the start of a word scrapes
(^| )k(?![x]) → $1kxQuand: at the start of a word
Comment: Say k and let it scrape into the ch of 'Bach' as it releases.
The Swiss k is an affricate: the stop releases into a fricative. 'Kind' begins with a small cough.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kind | |||
| kommen | |||
| Kopf |
Voyelles
-er keeps its r
ɐ$ → ərWhere the standard turns -er into a vowel, the Swiss say the r. It is why Swiss German sounds so consonantal to a German.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mutter | |||
| Vater | |||
| Wasser |
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