Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) refers to the Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times since 1681.
Alsatian nouns inflect by case, gender and number:
| English | Southern Alsatian (Haut-Rhin) |
Northern Alsatian (Bas-Rhin) |
High Alemannic | Standard German | Swabian German | Luxembourgish | Standard French |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| house | 's Hüss< Declension of indefinite articles in Alsatian (all equivalent to English "a/an"). Alsatian nouns inflect by case, gender and number:
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