Which is the superior dialect of German?

[Godwynn]

Yellow = Plattdeutsch
Turquoise = Mitteldeutsch
Green = Oberdeutsch

More detailed map:

Spoiler :

 

[holy king]

for some reason this map throws the allemanic dialects of switzerland, vorarlberg and i guess the bottom left corner of germany in with austro-bavarian.

 

[Dragonlord]

What do you mean by "superior"? Obviously, speakers of each regional dialect will prefer their own and find it superior to others.

Also, those broad classifications are pretty meaningless to anyone else than a linguist. I assure you, Swabian and Bavarian, for instance, may be in the same family, but they are so different, speakers of the undiluted dialects will have trouble understanding one another.

 

[Perfection]

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

 

[downtown]

Whatever Till uses.

 

[Masada]

The most guttural.

 

[dot]

OP

Godwynn, what do you want to know? That German actually doesn't really exist? That it's just a miserable mix-up of dialects? --- You already know that. Could you rephrase the question?

for some reason this map throws the allemanic dialects of switzerland, vorarlberg and i guess the bottom left corner of germany in with austro-bavarian.

So?

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

This made me giggle.

 

[dot]

Also, those broad classifications are pretty meaningless to anyone else than a linguist. I assure you, Swabian and Bavarian, for instance, may be in the same family, but they are so different, speakers of the undiluted dialects will have trouble understanding one another.

Quoted for Truth. Put an old farmer from the Bavarian Forest together with an o0ld farmer from the Southern Black Forest ... and they will need a translator!

 

[holy king]

So?

so i have problems voting for it, as the allemanic dialects clearly are inferior to austro-bavarian ones.

 

[Grisu]

so i have problems voting for it, as the allemanic dialects clearly are inferior to austro-bavarian ones.

pah!!!

Hochalemannisch obviously reigns supreme

also what Dragonlord said

 

[holy king]

Hochalemannisch obviously reigns supreme

i dont understand it, so how could it?

 

[echinococcus]

The one spoken in the TV news and in Hanover. It is not a dialect, is it?

 

[holy king]

i seriously doubt they speak high german in hannover?

 

[willemvanoranje]

Hollandic in the Dutch regions, obviously, and I think no one sane can contest the superiority of Swabian.

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

It actually sounds pretty cool. Sounded to me like a big mix of various southern dialects, not so much like what they speak in Rheinland-Pfalz..

 

[Leoreth]

i seriously doubt they speak high german in hannover?

Their local dialect is closest to High German. There are differences: the 'p' in 'pf' is often omitted, and words ending in -g often sound like -ch, making 'Pflug' and 'Fluch' very similar. But to a lesser degree, that's also true for High German.

@OP:
Best dialect: Hamburgisch
Worst: Sächsisch/Saxonian

 

[Grisu]

The one spoken in the TV news and in Hanover. It is not a dialect, is it?

I think the correct description for that dialect is 'Langweilig'

 

[Leoreth]

I think the correct description for that dialect is 'Langweilig'

Pronounced 'lankchweilikch'?

 

[Grisu]

Pronounced 'lankchweilikch'?

I was surprised you omitted the -li suffix

Worst: Sächsisch/Saxonian

I think we can all agree on that

 

[holy king]

I think we can all agree on that

millionthed.

 

[Perfection]

It actually sounds pretty cool.

Of course it's cool. Thhat's why I picked it.