East Franconian (German: Ostfränkisch) or Mainfränkisch, usually referred to as Franconian (Fränkisch) in German, is a dialect which is spoken in Franconia...

Rhine Franconian sub-family. However, the Hessian dialects have some features which set them somewhat apart from other West-Central German dialects. Hessian...

Upper Franconian dialects within the larger continuum. In fact, of all German dialects, the Low Rhenish-dialect (the only Low Franconian dialect spoken...

dialects. Hessisch or Hessian Pfälzisch-Lothringisch Pfälzisch or Palatine German Lothringisch or Lorraine Franconian Saarland (section Local dialect)...

Germanic dialects and the Second Germanic consonant shift and would form part of the modern Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian dialects of German...

[citation needed] Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German Dialects. New York / Berne / Frankfort on the Main, Peter Lang, p. 119. Franconian languages v t e...

(Standard German: Pfälzisch, endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken...

Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland...

and today still represents the language boundary between the Main-Franconian dialects and the Thuringian-Upper Saxon language area of Thuringia. Zwischen...

speakers of closely related Low Franconian dialects in adjacent parts of Germany, who do not refer to their local dialects as Limburgish. In German linguistic...

regarded as one Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group. Thuringian dialects are among the Central German dialects with the highest number of speakers. Thuringian...

Stadsfries dialect. A West Frisian standard language has also been developed. Dutch dialects can be divided into two main language groups: Low Franconian (Dutch:...

Saxony. The East Central dialects are the closest to Standard German (chiefly as a written language) among other German dialects. Modern Standard German...

The Red Main originates in the Franconian Jura mountain range, 50 km (31 mi) in length, and runs through Creussen and Bayreuth. The White Main originates...

Würzburg (German: [ˈvʏʁtsbʊʁk] ; Main-Franconian: Wörtzburch) is, after Nuremberg and Fürth, the third-largest city in Franconia located in the north...

Thuringian-Upper Saxon and Upper Franconian dialects, which are Central German and Upper German dialects belonging to the High German dialect group. German is therefore...

Veluws is usually divided into two main dialects, West-Veluws and Oost-Veluws (East Veluws), these two dialects are reasonably similar but differ in...

named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhenish Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for...

Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian dialects of Old High German Elbe Germanic, ancestral to the Upper German and most Central German dialects of Old...

whether two varieties are dialects of the same language or dialects of different languages. The terms "language" and "dialect" are not necessarily mutually...

Trier. As with almost all German dialects, the Hunsrückische dialect can be subdivided into many small local dialects, which each village having its own...

communities, but the Low German dialects of Denmark can be considered moribund at this time.[citation needed] Dialects of Low German are spoken in the...

languages, migration and weakening knowledge of the dialects. The transition from German dialects to Dutch variants followed two basic routes: From Central...

German proper comprises the Alemannic and Bavarian dialect groups. Furthermore, the High Franconian dialects, spoken up to the Speyer line isogloss in the...

Hohenlohisch is an East Franconian dialect spoken principally in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg in Germany, and which also overlaps dialects on the Bavarian...

into High German and Low German dialects by the 1880s gave rise to the term "Low Franconian" for the "Franconian" dialects that did not take part in the...

Franconian Dutch Afrikaans Afrikaans descended from Dutch dialects in the 17th century. It belongs to a West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages...

Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects Saxon (disambiguation)...

are generally not familiar with Moselle Franconian dialects (or at least other West Central German dialects). They can usually read the language to some...

well as moribundity and extinction of several of its dialects. In the 21st century, German dialects are dying out as Standard German gains primacy. The...