Upper German (German: Oberdeutsch) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy.
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Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or german:
““All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I don’t want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one ‘til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German ‘til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)