West Middle German is a Language classification Indo-European languages Germanic languages West Germanic languages High German languages Subdivisions Middle German Upper German High German (in German, Hochdeutsch; please note that Hochdeutsch is also used to refer to todays standard German) is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland... High German dialect family in the German (Deutsch) Spoken in: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and 38 other countries. Region: Europe Total speakers: 120 million Ranking: 9 Genetic classification: Indo-European  Germanic   West Germanic    Old High German    Middle High German    Modern German Official status Official language... German language. Its dialects are thoroughly The Franconian language can refer to: the Main Franconian, a High German dialect spoken in Franconia (a region of Bavaria, though historically distinct) the West Middle German language family a number of West Germanic languages and dialects, including all of West Middle German and some Low German languages as well... Franconian including the following sub-families:

• Middle Franconian
  • Ripuarian Franconian ( Landesflagge (civil flag) Landesdienstflagge (state service flag) Landeswappen (state coat-of-arms) Statistics Capital: D sseldorf Area: 34,080 km Inhabitants: 18,060,211 (2002) pop. density: 530 inh./km Homepage: http://www.nrw.de/ ISO 3166-2: DE-NW Politics Minister-president: Peer Steinbr ck (SPD) Ruling party: SPD... North Rhine-Westphalia, The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. Ruled by counts of the Wittelsbach dynasty from 1214... Rhineland-Palatinate and For other uses, see Belgium is: a country in Europe, see United States: Belgium, Illinois Belgium, Wisconsin Belgium (town), Wisconsin Belgium Township, Minnesota Belgium, West Virginia a curse word in the radio series and US version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is also... Belgium)
  • Luxembourgish or Luxembourgian (in French, Luxembourgeois; in German, Luxemburgisch; in Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch) is a West Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg. It was adopted as an official language in 1984. It is also spoken in small parts of Belgium, France and Germany, as well as by a few of the... Luxembourgish ( For other uses, see Luxembourg - a small country in west Europe Luxembourg (city) - the capital city of the country Luxembourg (district) - a district in the country Luxembourg, province of Belgium Luxemburg, Iowa - a city in the USA Luxemburg, Wisconsin - a village in the USA Luxembourg Garden, Paris, France Luxemburg Township... Luxembourg, Belgium and Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers. Trying... France)
• Rhine Franconian
  • Moselle Franconian (North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Flag Statistics Capital: Saarbrücken Area: 2570 km² Inhabitants: 1,080,000 (2000) pop. density: 420 people/km² Homepage: http://www.saarland.de/ ISO 3166-2: DE-SL Politics Minister-president: Peter Müller (CDU) Ruling party: CDU Map With an area of 2570 km² and 1.08 million inhabitants... Saarland)
  • The Frankish language can refer to: the language spoken by the Franks, a Germanic people active in the Roman era, often now called Old Frankish a West Franconian dialect of modern German spoken in Alsace and Lorraine, regions in France the Franconian language family In the second sense, Frankish (German... Lorrainian German (France)
  • Westpalatine dialects (Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland)
  • Forepalatine dialects (Rhineland-Palatinate and France)
  • Hesse Nassauish ( Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. State Service Flag Statistics Capital: Wiesbaden Area: 21,100 km² Inhabitants: 6.077.826 (2001) pop. density: 288 people/km² Homepage: http://www.hessen.de/ ISO 3166-2: DE-HE Politics... Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate)
• Lower Hesse dialects (Hesse, State Service Flag Civil Flag Statistics Capital: Erfurt Area: 16,171 km² Inhabitants: 2 392 000 (2003) pop. density: 148 people/km² Homepage: thueringen.de (http://www.thueringen.de/) ISO 3166-2: DE-TH Politics Minister-president: Dieter Althaus (CDU) Ruling party: CDU Map The Free State of Thuringia... Thuringia)

Apart from West Middle German on the southern edge and in south-east Franconian dialects are turning to Upper German. This transition area between Middle German and Language classification Indo-European languages Germanic languages West Germanic languages High German languages Upper German Subdivisions Alemannic language Austro-Bavarian language Upper German is a family of High German languages spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy. Family tree Upper German languages can be generally classified as... Upper German is captured by the dialect families of Southern Franconian and East Franconian, colloquially miscalled Franconian, because dialects of this sub-family are spoken all over Franconia (German, Franken), a region in Germany now part of the state of Bavaria. The area was the seat of the Salian Holy Roman Emperors, and is considered one of the five original stem duchies that made up the Holy Roman Empire. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the Early... Franconia.

See also

• East Middle German
• The Franconian language can refer to: the Main Franconian, a High German dialect spoken in Franconia (a region of Bavaria, though historically distinct) the West Middle German language family a number of West Germanic languages and dialects, including all of West Middle German and some Low German languages as well... Franconian language
• This page covers the Limburgish language, spoken in the Netherlands and Belgium. Limburgian (Limburgs) Spoken in: Netherlands, Belgium and a small part of Germany Region: Limburg Total speakers: 1,600,000 (est.) Ranking: Not in top 100 Genetic classification: Indo-European  Germanic   West Germanic    ... Limburgish language

External link

• German dialects of today (http://members.tripod.com/~radde/Mundarten.html) (in German)