Main-Franconian dialects
Spoken in
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic high German upper German East Frankish Main Fränkisch
Main Franconian is a dialect group of the East Frankish.
Language area
The main Franconian dialect region extends in a wide belt along the Germersheim line. This isogloss separates the Franconian dialects in the so-called " Pund " - and "pound " dialects. The first group is one of the Rhine Franconian and to the latter the Südrhein and Mainfränkische. Significant linguistic boundaries to the north and north-east form the salt sheet and the Rennsteig. In the east, south and west of the language border falls approximately with the old territorial boundaries of bishoprics of Bamberg and Würzburg from the High and Late Middle Ages. To the east and southeast the language border is therefore called Bamberger barrier. Main-Franconian dialects are spoken today mainly in the following areas:
- In the districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria,
- In the Main-Tauber district, in Baden -Württemberg,
- In the circles Wartburg district, Schmalkalden -Meiningen, Hildburghausen and Sonneberg and in the independent city of Suhl in southern Thuringia.
Main-Franconian dialects
- Tauber Green Disch ( Bavaria: Cross Wertheim, Baden- Württemberg: Tauberbischofsheim, old County of Wertheim )
- Rhoener Platt ( Bavaria: Bad Kissingen, Bishop home at the Rhön; Hesse: Gersfeld, Hilders; Thuringia: to Bad Salzungen; see: westthüringisch )
- Under Frankish ( Bavaria: Wurzburg, Schweinfurt; Haßberge; Baden- Württemberg: Main-Tauber -Kreis)
- Grabfeldisch ( Bavaria: Bad Königshofen, Mellrichstadt; Thuringia: Römhild, Franconia Home )
- Hennebergisch (Thuringia Schmalkalden, Meiningen, Zella- Mehlis, Suhl, Schleusingen )
- Itzgründisch ( Bavaria: Coburg, Neustadt, Michelau; Thuringia: Sonneberg, Hildburghausen, ice rink, Heldburg )
- Bambergisch (Bayern: Bamberg, Forchheim, Erlangen )