Omegäng (2024)
• January 19th, 2024 • 1h 20min
Documentary
Overview
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the dialect. The opposite has happened. The dialect persists and continues to blossom.
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