| High Franconian | |
| Also Known As: | Upper Franconian (de|Oberfränkisch) |
| Region: | Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Saxony |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Germanic |
| Fam3: | West Germanic languages |
| Fam4: | Weser-Rhine Germanic / Elbe Germanic |
| Fam5: | High German languages |
| Fam6: | Upper German |
| Child1: | East Franconian |
| Child2: | South Franconian |
| Glotto: | uppe1464 |
| Glottorefname: | Upper Franconian |
| Glottoname: | Upper Franconian |
| Map: | Oberdeutsche Mundarten.png |
| Mapcaption: | Upper German dialects after 1945, with High Franconian in red and purple |
High Franconian or Upper Franconian (de|Oberfränkisch) is a part of High German consisting of East Franconian and South Franconian.[1] It is spoken southeast of the Rhine Franconian area. It is spoken in Germany around Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Heilbronn, Meiningen and Würzburg and a small area in France.
High Franconian is transitional between Upper German and Central German but usually regarded as Upper German. It is disputed whether it makes sense to summarise East and South Franconian because both are different.