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Please note: the writing is in German, but the speaking is in Swiss German
- an unwritten collection of dialects. The symbols are for the original German.

	.SWALLOWED 'R'		rein, rot, richtig
			Tor, vor
			studieren
	OTHER SOUNDS		ich, dreissig, Achtung
			Knie, Knecht
			Pfeffer, Kopf
			Quelle, Quittung
			lang, länger, singen
			Schule, Kaschmir, Mensch
	PLOSION		Guten Morgen!
			Mittel
	LIGHT & LIQUID 'L'		Licht, ehrlich
			Million
	GLOTTAL STOP		Wie `alt `ist `er?
	ELISION		Wie geht es?
			Auf wiedersehen!
			Guten Morgen!

Our warmest thanks go to ...

Speaker	Geographical origin	Date of recording	Approx age
Mala Niederer Sandro Cocchi	Bern Zürich	March 30th, 2001 April 2nd, 2001	45+ 28

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