Some dialect speakers are unwilling to speak standard German, at times, to certain outsiders and prefer to use French.

Some street names in Alsace may use Alsatian spellings (they were formerly displayed only in French but are now bilingual in some places, especially Strasbourg and Mulhouse).

A 1999 INSEE survey counted 548,000 adult speakers of Alsatian in France, making it the second-most-spoken regional language in the country (after Occitan).

The programs have proven popular with students and parents but after years of official state suppression of the language, struggle to find enough teachers.

[4] A dialect of Alsatian German is spoken in the United States by a group known as the Swiss Amish, whose ancestors emigrated there in the middle of the 19th century.

Orthal (Orthographe alsacienne)[6] is a revised orthography meant for use by all dialects of Alsatian promoted by the Office pour la Langue et les Cultures d'Alsace et de Moselle (OLCA).

In general the principles of Orthal are to: The vowels are pronounced short or long based on their position in the syllable besides the letter type.

In southern dialects, there is a tendency to pronounce it /x/ in all positions, and in Strasbourg the palatal allophone tends to conflate with the phoneme /ʃ/.