since the inventor is Swiss we're probably lucky to have it in American rather than Romansh

Brrr. I once spent some time with a lovely Swiss German guy, back when I still spoke regular German. He spoke Schweizerdeutsch. We were ... not quite intelligible to each other. He tried to give me lessons, but - eww, the Swiss are weird. Even in the context of the weirdness of other people, the Swiss are weird.