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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Great Trek in the 1830s. These dialects are the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape dialects. Northern Cape dialect may have resulted from contact...

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

Weißwurstäquator Upper German Alemannic dialects Austro-Bavarian dialects East Franconian German South Franconian German Handbook for Travellers in Southern...

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...

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

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

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

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

period a perfect dialect continuum remained between Franconian and Saxon areas, as well as between Low Franconian and Middle or High Franconian. Old Dutch is...