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The Central German dialects
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High German subdivides into Upper German (green) and Central German (blue), and is distinguished from Low German (yellow). The main isoglosses, the Benrath and Speyer lines are marked in black.
Central German (in German: Mitteldeutsch, or rarely Zentraldeutsch) is a group of High German dialects spread from the Rhineland to Thuringia, south of Low German and Low Franconian and north of Upper German. In older books, Central German is sometimes called Middle German.

Central German divides into two subgroups, West Central German (Franconian) and East Central German. Central German is distinguished by having experienced only the first and fourth phases of the High German consonant shift.

Classification

German language (Deutsch, ] (help info ) ) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
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The High German languages are a subdivision of the West Germanic Languages     
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The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the French Empire in the early 19th century, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine river
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Freistaat Thüringen
Free State of Thuringia
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Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
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Low German (also called Niederdeutsch, Plattdeutsch or Plattdüütsch) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch
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Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, Suriname, South Africa, Namibia and north-western Germany descended from Old Frankish.
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Upper German German: Oberdeutsch is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy.
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West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch) belongs to the Central, High German dialect family in the German language. Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian including the following sub-families:
  • Central Franconian

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Franconian is a linguistic marker for a number of West Germanic languages and dialects spoken in the former core of the Frankish Empire: the Low Countries (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) and western Germany (around Aachen, Cologne and Trier) [1].
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East Central German is the non-Franconian sub-group of Central German dialects, themselves part of High German:
  • Thuringian-Upper Saxon German is a group of dialects spoken in the majority of the modern German Free States of Saxony and Thuringia.

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High German consonant shift or Second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development (sound change) which took place in the southern parts of the West Germanic dialect continuum in several phases, probably beginning between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, and was
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West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch) belongs to the Central, High German dialect family in the German language. Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian including the following sub-families:
  • Central Franconian

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A name for the following set of dialect groups:
  • Ripuarian Franconian (North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Belgium, and Dutch Limburg)
  • Moselle Franconian (North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and France)

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Ripuarian (Ripoarish or Ripuarisch Platt) is a West Germanic dialect group spoken in the Rhineland, eastern Belgium and southern Dutch Limburg from northwest of Düsseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in the west, and Waldbröl in the east.
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Moselle Franconian is a group of High German dialects spoken in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, in the neighbouring département of Moselle in France, as well as in Romania, because of the emigration of numerous German families between 1100 and
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Luxembourgish}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Luxembourg
Regulated by: Conseil Permanent de la Langue Luxembourgeoise (CPLL)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: lb
ISO 639-2: ltz
ISO 639-3: ltz

Luxembourgish
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Rhine Franconian (German: Rheinfränkisch), or Rhenish Franconian, is a dialect family of West Central German. It comprises the German dialects spoken across the western regions of the states of Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Hesse in Germany.
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Lorraine Franconian (French: francique mosellan, platt lorrain, or platt mosellan) is a designation, in practice ambiguous, for dialects of German spoken in the north-eastern part of the French region of Lorraine.
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Palatinate German (Pfälzisch/Pälzisch) is a West Franconian dialect of German which is spoken in the Rhine Valley between the cities of Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, and Mannheim.
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Hessian is a West Middle German dialect of the German language. Hessian is spoken in Germany in the state of Hesse mainly, additionally in bordering areas within other states of Germany such as the state of Bavaria.
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East Central German is the non-Franconian sub-group of Central German dialects, themselves part of High German:
  • Thuringian-Upper Saxon German is a group of dialects spoken in the majority of the modern German Free States of Saxony and Thuringia.

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Berlin-Brandenburgish is a group of dialects spoken in Brandenburg (Brandenburgisch) and Berlin (Berlinerisch). The original East Low German dialects of Berlin have been strongly influenced by East Central German dialects, so that Berlinerische today is often classified as East
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Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: —
ISO 639-3: sxu

Upper Saxon (German: Obersächsisch or colloquially, Sächsisch
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Lower Silesian language (ISO 639-2 language code: SLI), or simply Silesian (German: Schlesisch), is a German dialect spoken in Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland as well as in the northeastern Czech Republic and a part of
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High Prussian (German: Hochpreußisch), sometimes known simply as Prussian (Preußisch), is a dialect of East Central German that developed in the region of East Prussia.
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