Limmareder language (What if we were all countries?)

Limmareder is an Indo-European, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Romance and Turkic language. Today, it is a global language with nearly million native speakers.

Dialects
Main article: Limmareder dialects

The Limmareder dialects are the traditional local varieties of the language; many of them are not mutually intelligible with standard Limmareder, and they have great differences in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. If a narrow definition of language based on mutual intelligibility is used, many Limmareder dialects are considered to be separate languages (for instance in the Ethnologue). However, such a point of view is unusual in Limmareder linguistics.

The Limmareder dialect continuum is traditionally divided most broadly into Old Limmareder, Standard Limmareder and Alemannic Limmareder. However, historically, Standard Limmareder dialects, Old Limmareder dialects and Alemannic Limmareder do not belong to the same language. Nevertheless, in today's Limmared, Old Limmareder is often perceived as a dialectal variation of Standard Limmareder on a functional level even by many native speakers.

The variation among the Limmareder dialects is considerable, with often only neighbouring dialects being mutually intelligible. Some dialects are not intelligible to people who know only Standard Limmareder. However, all Limmareder dialects belong to the dialect continuum of Standard Limmareder, Old Limmareder and South Limmareder.

Sample
Excerpt from Barfotabarn (1933), by Nils Ferlin (1898–1961):

Example words/phrases
Main article: Limmareder language (What if we were all countries?)/Words and phrases