Central German
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| Central German | |
|---|---|
| Middle German, Mitteldeutsch | |
| Geographic distribution | Western and Central Germany, southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | fran1268 |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Central German dialects after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans
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Central German or Middle German (Template:Langx) is a group of High German languages spoken from the Rhineland in the west to the former eastern territories of Germany.
Central German divides into two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German.
Central German is distinguished by having experienced the High German consonant shift to a lesser degree than Upper German. It is spoken in the linguistic transition region separated from Northern Germany (Low German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany (Upper German) by the Speyer line.
Central German is spoken in large and influential German cities such as Berlin, the former West German capital Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, the main German financial center Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Dresden.
The area corresponds to the geological region of the hilly Central Uplands that stretches from the North German plain to the South German Scarplands, covering the states of Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony.
The East Central dialects are the closest to Standard German (chiefly as a written language) among other German dialects. Modern Standard German thus evolved from the vocabulary and spelling of this region, with some pronunciation features from East Franconian German.[1]
Classification
- West Central German (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Central Franconian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Ripuarian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Moselle Franconian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Luxembourgish (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Rhine Franconian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Palatinate German (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Lorraine Franconian (Script error: No such module "Lang".), spoken in Lorraine
- Hessian
- North Hessian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- East Hessian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Central Hessian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- South Hessian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Central Franconian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- East Central German (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Thuringian (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Upper Saxon (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
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- Lusatian
- East Central German dialects spoken in the former eastern territories:
- Silesian (Script error: No such module "Lang".), nearly extinct
- High Prussian (Script error: No such module "Lang".), nearly extinct
See also
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Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Besch, Werner; Wolf, Norbert Richard (2009). Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. p. 227. ISBN 9783503098668.
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