Editing Suebi (section)

==Language==
{{Infobox language
| name             = Suebian
| region           = [[Elbe|Elbe basin]] and northwestern [[Iberia]]
| states           = [[Kingdom of the Suebi]]
| era              = [[Middle Ages]] 
| ethnicity        = Suebi
| extinct          = after 6th century
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[Elbe Germanic]]
| script           = [[Elder Futhark inscriptions#Continental|Runic script]]
| iso3             = none
| glotto           = none
| map              = Germanic dialects ca. AD 1.png
| mapcaption       = Proposed theory on the distribution of the primary [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] dialect groups in Europe in around AD 1:
{{legend|Blue|[[North Germanic languages|North Germanic]]}}
{{legend|Red|[[North Sea Germanic]], or Ingvaeonic}}
{{legend|Orange|[[Weser–Rhine Germanic]], or Istvaeonic}}
{{legend|Yellow|[[Elbe Germanic]], or Irminonic}}
{{legend|Green|[[East Germanic languages|East Germanic]]}}
}}
While there is debate possible about whether all tribes identified by Romans as Germanic spoke a [[Germanic languages|Germanic language]], the Suebi are generally agreed to have spoken one or more Germanic languages. Tacitus refers to Suebian languages, implying there was more than one by the end of the first century. In particular, the Suebi are associated with the concept of an "Elbe Germanic" group of early dialects spoken by the [[Irminones]], entering Germany from the east, and originating on the Baltic. In late classical times, these dialects, by now situated to the south of the Elbe, and stretching across the Danube into the Roman empire, experienced the [[High German consonant shift]] that defines modern [[High German languages]], and in its most extreme form, [[Upper German]].<ref name=robinson>{{citation| title=Old English and its Closest Relatives| year=1992| first=Orrin |author-link=Orrin W. Robinson (philologist)|last= Robinson}} pages 194–5.</ref>

Modern [[Swabian German]], and [[Alemannic German]] more broadly, are therefore "assumed to have evolved at least in part" from Suebian.<ref>Waldman & Mason, 2006, ''Encyclopedia of European Peoples'', p. 784.</ref> However, [[Bavarian language|Bavarian]], the [[Thuringian dialect]], the [[Lombardic language]] spoken by the Lombards of Italy, and [[standard German|standard "High German"]] itself, are also at least partly derived from the dialects spoken by the Suebi. (The only non-Suebian name among the major groups of Upper Germanic dialects is [[High Franconian German]], but this is on the transitional frontier with [[Central German]], as is neighboring Thuringian.)<ref name=robinson/>