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    Rhenish Franconian or Rhine Franconian (German: Rheinfränkisch [ˈʁaɪnfʁɛnkɪʃ] ) is a dialect chain of West Central German. It comprises the varieties of...
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    Franconian dialects. The Central Franconian dialects are part of a continuum stretching from the Low Franconian language area in the northwest to the Rhine Franconian...
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    transition between "dialect" and "separate language" is fluid. The Linguasphere Register lists five dialects of Moselle Franconian (code 52-ACB-dc) with...
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    Franconian dialects are transitional dialects between Central- and Upper German. The East Franconian dialect branch is one of the most spoken dialect...
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    South Franconian (German: Südfränkisch) or South Rhine Franconian (German: Südrheinfränkisch) is an Upper German dialect which is spoken in the northernmost...
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    Rhine Franconian sub-family. However, the Hessian dialects have some features which set them somewhat apart from other West-Central German dialects....
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    Germanic dialects and the Second Germanic consonant shift and would form part of the modern Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian dialects of German...
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    Germanic dialects traditionally grouped within it. Within the field of historical philology the terminology for the historical phases of Low Franconian is not...
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    distinguish it from the other two Franconian dialects spoken in Lorraine, Luxembourgish to the west and Rhine Franconian to the east.[citation needed] The...
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    transitional area between Rhine Franconian in the northwest and the Austro-Bavarian dialects in the southeast, East Franconian has elements of Central German...
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    Weser–Rhine Germanic is a proposed group of prehistoric West Germanic dialects, which includes both Central German dialects and Low Franconian, the ancestor...
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    Weser–Rhine Germanic, ancestral to Old Dutch and present as a substrate or superstrate in some of the Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian dialects of...
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    East Franconian and South Franconian. It is spoken southeast of the Rhine Franconian area. It is spoken in Germany around Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Erlangen...
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    dialect family of German. It includes the following sub-families: Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch) Ripuarian (Ripuarisch), spoken in North Rhine-Westphalia...
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  • Palatine German (endonym: Pälzisch) is a Rhenish Franconian dialect and is spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken,...
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    Upper Franconian dialects within the larger continuum. In fact, of all German dialects, the Low Rhenish-dialect (the only Low Franconian dialect spoken...
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    Kleverlandish (category Low Franconian languages)
    Kleverländisch) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse and Rhine rivers. Kleverlandish varieties...
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    Franconian German as well as South Franconian German and in Bavaria there are Bavarian dialects as well as Rhine Franconian dialects, East Franconian...
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    Meuse-Rhenish (category German dialects)
    linguist Arend Mihm in 1992 to denote a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken in the greater Meuse-Rhine area, which stretches in the northern triangle roughly...
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  • High Franconian is a transitional dialect group between the Rhine Franconian dialects of West Central German to the North and the Swabian dialects of Alemannic...
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  • 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...
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  • Central Franconian Ripuarian Moselle Franconian dialects, including Luxembourgish Hunsrik language (from the Hunsrückisch dialect) Rhine Franconian Palatine...
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    Franconia (redirect from Franconians)
    Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland...
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    Noordmiddelfrankisch) is a German dialect group, part of the West Central German language group. Together with the Moselle Franconian which includes the Luxembourgish...
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    dialects were traditionally spoken in Alsace-Lorraine before the 20th century. Germanic dialects: Central German dialects: Luxembourgish Franconian aka...
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    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...
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    Alemannic German; Ripuarian and Low Franconian: Rhing; Latin: Rhenus [ˈr̥eːnʊs]; Hungarian: Rajna [ˈrɒjnɒ]. The Rhine was not known in the Hellenistic period...
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    Wiesinger defined a Bergisch dialect group that includes the dialects North of Benrath line spoken to the east of the Rhine to about Essen, Mülheim and...
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    Some Volga German dialects are very similar to Pennsylvania Dutch, another Palatine Rhine Franconian language; in either dialect, one could say: (spelled...
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    cultural bond of the German Lower Rhine region is its Low Franconian language, specifically the Kleverlandish dialect (German: Kleverländisch, Dutch: Kleverlands)...
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