Zürich German (
German:
Zürichdeutsch, natively
Züritüütsch ) is the
High Alemannic dialect spoken in the
Canton of Zürich,
Switzerland. Its areal covers most of the canton, with the exception of the parts north of the
Thur and the
Rhine, which belong to the areal of the northeastern (Schaffhausen and Thurgau) Swiss dialects.