German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union.... : Mitteldeutsch, or rarely Zentraldeutsch) is a group of High German
High German languages
The High German languages are any of the variety of German language, Luxembourgish language and Yiddish language, as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in neighbouring portions of Belgium, France , Italy, and Poland.... dialects spread from the Rhineland
Rhineland
The Rhineland is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the First French Empire in the early 19th century, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia.... to Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany .... , south of Low German
Low German
Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands.... and Low Franconian and north of Upper German
Upper German
Upper German is a family of High German languages dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy.... .
German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union.... : Mitteldeutsch, or rarely Zentraldeutsch) is a group of High German
High German languages
The High German languages are any of the variety of German language, Luxembourgish language and Yiddish language, as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in neighbouring portions of Belgium, France , Italy, and Poland.... dialects spread from the Rhineland
Rhineland
The Rhineland is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. After the collapse of the First French Empire in the early 19th century, the German-speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia.... to Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen States of Germany .... , south of Low German
Low German
Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands.... and Low Franconian and north of Upper German
Upper German
Upper German is a family of High German languages dialects spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy.... . In older books, Central German is sometimes called Middle German.
West Central German belongs to the Central German, High German languages dialect family in the German language. Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian languages including the following sub-families:... (Franconian
Franconian languages
Image:Frankischetalen.pngFranconian is a linguistic marker for a number of West Germanic Germanic languages languages and dialects spoken in part of the former core of the Frankish Empire: the Low Countries and western Germany .... ) and East Central German
East Central German
East Central German is the non-Franconian languages sub-group of Central German dialects, themselves part of High Germanic languages:*Thuringian... . Central German is distinguished by having experienced only the first and fourth phases of the High German consonant shift
High German consonant shift
In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development 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 almost complete before the earliest written recor... .
West Central German belongs to the Central German, High German languages dialect family in the German language. Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian languages including the following sub-families:... (Westmitteldeutsch)
Central Franconian is a name for the following set of dialect groups:* Ripuarian Franconian * Moselle Franconian * Luxembourgish language Luxembourgish is often included within Moselle Franconian, but sometimes regarded as a separate group.... (Mittelfränkisch)
Ripuarian is a West Germanic languages dialect group spoken in the Rhineland, eastern Belgium and southern Limburg from northwest of D?sseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in the west, and Waldbr?l in the east, and also the name of the people who spoke it.... (Ripuarisch)
Moselle Franconian is a group of High German languages dialects spoken in parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, in the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, in the neighbouring... (Moselfränkisch)
Rhine Franconian , 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.... (Rheinfränkisch)
Lorraine Franconian is a designation, in practice ambiguous, for dialects of German language spoken in the north-eastern part of the France region of Lorraine .... (Lothringisch)
Palatine German is a West Franconian dialect of German language which is spoken in the Rhine Valley between the cities of Zweibr?cken, Kaiserslautern, and Mannheim, and the border to the Alsace region and the Rhine River.... (Pfälzisch)
East Central German is the non-Franconian languages sub-group of Central German dialects, themselves part of High Germanic languages:*Thuringian... (Ostmitteldeutsch)
Berlin-Brandenburgish is a group of dialects spoken in Brandenburg and Berlin . 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 Middle German....
High Prussian is a dialect of East Central German that developed in the region of East Prussia. The dialect developed from High German, brought in by Silesian Germans settlers in the 13th—15th centuries, and was influenced by the Baltic languages Old Prussian language.... (Hochpreußisch)
