Alemannic, or rarely Alemannish (Alemannisch, [alɛˈman(ː)ɪʃ] ⓘ), is a group of High German dialects.

In the Old High German period, the first coherent texts are recorded in the St. Gall Abbey, among them the eighth-century Paternoster:[4] Due to the importance of the Carolingian abbeys of St. Gall and Reichenau Island, a considerable part of the Old High German corpus has Alemannic traits.

Alemannic Middle High German is less prominent, in spite of the Codex Manesse compiled by Johannes Hadlaub of Zürich.

Swiss authors often consciously employ Helvetisms within Standard German, notably Jeremias Gotthelf in his novels set in the Emmental, Friedrich Glauser in his crime stories, and more recently Tim Krohn in his Quatemberkinder.

[citation needed] The poet Ida Ospelt-Amann wrote and published exclusively in the dialect of Vaduz.