West Central German

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• Central Franconian
  Central Franconian
  
  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....
  
• Ripuarian Franconian (North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia
  
  North Rhine - Westphalia is the westernmost and - in terms of population and economic output - the largest States of Germany of Germany. North Rhine - Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km? ....
  , Rhineland-Palatinate
  Rhineland-Palatinate
  
  Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 States of Germany of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz....
   and Belgium
  Belgium
  
  * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  )
• Luxembourgish
  Luxembourgish language
  
  Luxembourgish , also called Luxembourgian, also spelled Luxemburgish, is one of the West Central German dialects of High German spoken in Luxembourg....
   (Luxembourg
  Luxembourg
  
  Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....
  , Belgium and France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  )
• Moselle Franconian
  Moselle Franconian
  
  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...
   (North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland
  Saarland
  
  Saarland is one of the 16 States of Germany of Germany. The capital is Saarbr?cken. It has an area of 2570 km? and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population it is the smallest of the German Fl?chenl?nder , i.e., those that are not City States ....
  , and France)
• Rhine Franconian
  Rhine Franconian
  
  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....
  
• Westpalatine dialects (Rhineland-Palatinate
  Palatinate German
  
  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....
   and Saarland)
• Forepalatine dialects (Rhineland-Palatinate and France)
• Eastern Lorraine dialect (France)
• Hessian dialects (Hesse
  Hesse
  
  Hesse is a States of Germany of Germany with an area of 21,110 km? and just over six million inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden. Hesse's largest city is nearby Frankfurt am Main....
  , Rhineland-Palatinate and westernmost 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 ....
  )
• Pennsylvania German
  Pennsylvania German language
  
  The Pennsylvania German language is a variety of West Central German possibly spoken by more than 250,000 people in North America. It has traditionally been the language of many of the descendants of late 17th and early 18th century immigrants to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and even North Carolina from southern Germany, eastern Franc...
   (historical communities in North America, especially Pennsylvania)
• Bukowinadeutsch (formerly Bukowina
  Bukowina
  
  Bukowina may refer to:*Bukowina, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Bukowina, Bilgoraj County in Lublin Voivodeship *Bukowina, Piotrk?w County in L?dz Voivodeship ...
  )

See also

• 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...
  
• Limburgish language
  Limburgish language
  
  Limburgish, or Limburgian or Limburgic is a group of Low Franconian varieties, spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, near the common Netherlands / Belgium / Germany border....
  
• 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...