Schwyzdüütsch a.k.a. Swiss German

If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences. That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.

Illustration with the caption "Schwyzdüütsch a.k.a. Swiss German". There are three panels, each with the same three characters. In the first panel, a French person says "Merci beaucoup!". In the second panel, a German person says "Danke vielmals!". In the third panel, the Swiss person says "Merci vilmal!". Watermark: Linguist Gone Foreign

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