Rhine Franconian dialects

Spoken in

  • Indo-European Germanic West Germanic high German Central German West Middle German Rhine Franconian

Rhine Franconian is a collective term for the following Franconian languages ​​and dialects in the West Central German:

  • Lorraine (only the Rhine Franconian part ) (France in the department of Moselle)
  • Palatine (former government district, in Rhineland -Palatinate and neighboring areas ) Westpfälzisch ( South and Ostsaarland, see also dialects in the Saarland, and Rhineland -Palatinate ( Pfalz West ) )
  • Kurpfälzisch (Baden- Württemberg ( South Baden) )
  • Vorderpfälzisch ( Vorderpfalz and France (northern Alsace ) )
  • Pennsilfaanisch ( in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana as well as in Ontario, Canada )

From the north and west adjacent Moselle Franconian they are separated by the Sankt Goar line or " dat / the - line ", which runs from Völklingen on the Saar over simmering, Sankt Goar and Limburg to Dillenburg. Of the southFrankish, Alemannic and East Franconian dialects in the south and east it is separated by the Speyer line, Germersheim line or " appel / apple - line " (about White Castle - Wörth am Rhein -Speyer- Sinsheim- Eberbach- Mudau -Wertheim ).

Not to be confused with the spoken Rhine Franconian in the greater Bonn -Cologne- Aachen and parts of the Bergisch Ripuarian, which belongs to the Middle Franconian.

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