Rhine Franconian dialects explained

Rhenish Franconian
Also Known As:Rhenish-Franconian, Rhine Franconian, Rhine-Franconian
Region:Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Hesse, Lorraine, Alsace
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam3:West Germanic
Fam5:Central German
Fam6:West Central German
Glotto:rhin1244
Glottorefname:Rhenish Franconian
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Mapcaption:Rhenish Franconian among the Franconian languages.

Rhenish Franconian or Rhine Franconian (German: Rheinfränkisch pronounced as /de/) is a dialect chain of West Central German. It comprises the varieties of German spoken across the western regions of the states of Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, northwest Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse in Germany. It is also spoken in northeast France, in the eastern part of the French: [[département]] of Moselle in the Lorraine region, and in the north-west part of Bas-Rhin in Alsace. To the north, it is bounded by the Sankt Goar line (or German: das–dat|italic=unset line) which separates it from Moselle Franconian; to the south, it is bounded by the Main line which is also referred to as the Speyer line which separates it from the Upper German dialects.

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References

  1. Hartmut Beckers: Westmitteldeutsch. In: Lexikon der Germanistischen Linguistik. Herausgegeben von Hans Peter Althaus, Helmut Henne, Herbert Ernst Wiegand. 2nd ed., Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, Tübingen, 1980 (1st ed. 1973), p. 468ff., here p. 468
  2. Cornelia Stroh: Sprachkontakt und Sprachbewußtsein: Eine soziolinguistische Studie am Beispiel Ost-Lothringens. Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, Tübingen, 1993, p. 34