transition between "dialect" and "separate language" is fluid. The Linguasphere Register lists five dialects of Moselle Franconian (code 52-ACB-dc) with...

Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian dialects. The Central Franconian dialects are part of a continuum stretching from the Low Franconian language area in the...

ambiguous designation for dialects of West Central German (German: Westmitteldeutsch), a group of High German dialects spoken in the Moselle department of the...

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

Other Moselle Franconian dialects are spoken by ethnic Germans long settled in Transylvania, Romania (Siebenbürgen). Moselle Franconian dialects outside...

dialects. The West Central German dialects are the Central Franconian dialects (Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian) and the Rhenish Franconian dialects...

other High German dialects, and the characteristic pitch accent, which is exclusively shared with Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian. Until the Early Modern...

bordering French Moselle department, as well as by the Pennsylvania Dutch in North America. The East Franconian dialects are transitional dialects between Central-...

Pfälzisch [ˈp͡fɛlt͡sɪʃ] , endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken...

Franconian (German: Ostfränkisch [ˈɔstfʁɛŋkɪʃ] ) or Mainfränkisch, usually referred to as Franconian (Fränkisch [ˈfʁɛŋkɪʃ] ) in German, is a dialect spoken...

Noordmiddelfrankisch) is a German dialect group, part of the West Central German language group. Together with the Moselle Franconian which includes the Luxembourgish...

those in Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian, although a few Ripuarian dialects follow the South Low Franconian pattern (e.g. the dialect of Kerkrade) and vice...

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

Central Franconian Ripuarian Moselle Franconian dialects, including Luxembourgish Hunsrik language (from the Hunsrückisch dialect) Rhine Franconian Palatine...

speakers are mostly in Alsace. Several Franconian dialects of West Middle German are also spoken in the district of Moselle, although their number of native...

replaced by e, i, and ei respectively. Both the Rhine Franconian and Moselle Franconian dialects (and Luxembourgish) have merged the palatal fricative...

Luxembourgish dialect). Moselle Franconian in the central northern part of Moselle around Boulay-Moselle (Bolchin in the local Moselle Franconian dialect) and...

loanwords into Moselle Franconian dialects, the latest detectable form of Moselle Romance can be classified as a Langue d'oïl dialect. This can be seen...

German Lorraine Franconian dialects ceased to be used in the public realm. In recent years there has been a revival of the old dialects and distinct Franco-German...

are part of the Moselle Franconian dialect group and closely resemble Luxembourgish. In the northern Eifel, by contrast, the dialects (Eifelplatt) belong...

from the Hunsrückisch dialect of Moselle Franconian Rhine Franconian (Rheinfränkisch; francique rhénan) Palatinate Franconian (Pfälzisch; francique palatin)...

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

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

German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most...

consonants (e.g. helpan > helfen 'help') sets off Moselle Franconian dialects from Ripuarian dialects with the latter having retained unshifted /p/. The...

East Franconian German. West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch) Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch) Ripuarian (Ripuarisch) Moselle Franconian (Moselfränkisch)...

Amana German Central Franconian Ripuarian Franconian Moselle Franconian Hunsrik Luxembourgish Transylvanian Saxon Rhine Franconian Hessian Palatine Pennsylvania...

Hunsrückisch or Katharinensisch, is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German which is spoken...

southeastern Lorraine. The second is the German dialect of Lorraine Franconian, a group of three Franconian dialects independently surviving in northern and western...

forms a dialect boundary, the "Vinxtbach line" (Vinxtbachlinie): north of the Vinxtbach the Ripuarian dialects are spoken, south of it, the Moselle Franconian...