Zürich German is the High Alemannic dialect spoken in Zürich, Switzerland. High Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic dialects and belongs to the German language, even though they are only partly intelligible to German speakers. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Zürich IPA (in English often Zurich, which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 364,558 in 2002; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ...

Like all Swiss German dialects, it is essentially a spoken language, whereas the written language is standard German. Likewise, there is no official orthography of the Zurich dialect. If it is written, then often according to the guidelines published by Eugen Dieth in his book Schwyzertütschi Dialäktschrift. Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzertütsch) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland. ... Spoken language is a language that people utter words of the language. ... A written language is a language that has a writing system, or more generally the written form of any language that has such written components. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... The orthography of a language is the set of rules of how to write correctly in the writing system of a language. ...