The Walser are the speakers of the Walser German dialects, a variety of Highest Alemannic. They inhabit the Alps of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as on the fringes of Italy and Austria. The Walser people are named after the Wallis (Valais), the uppermost Rhône River valley, where they settled from roughly the 10th century in the late pha...
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(from the article `Liechtenstein`) ...came into the region after 500. Although the official language is German, most of the population still speaks an Alemanni dialect containing ... ...from Bludenz between the Rhätikon Mountains and the Fervall Gruppe (mountains). Settled since Celtic times (4th century ), its inhabitants were .....
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