Central German

Central German
	Mitteldeutsch
Geographic; distribution	Western and Central Germany, southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser-Rhine Germanic Central German Central German; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	West Central German; East Central German;
Glottolog	fran1268[1]
	Central German dialects 1: Ripuarian 2: Moselle Franconian 3: Luxembourgish 4: Hessian 5: Palatinate German 6: Lorraine Franconian 7: Thuringian 8: Upper Saxon 9: Erzgebirgisch 10: Lusatian-Silesian 11: South Markish

Central German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a group of High German dialects 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 only the first and fourth phases of the High German consonant shift. It is spoken in the linguistic transition region separated from Northern Germany (Low German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss. It is separated from Southern Germany (Upper German) by the Speyer line.

Central German is spoken in large and influential German cities like the capital Berlin, the former West German capital Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and the main German financial center Frankfurt.

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.

Classification

West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch), part of the Franconian language group
- Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch)
  - Ripuarian (Ripuarisch)
  - Moselle Franconian (Moselfränkisch)
  - Luxembourgish (Luxemburgisch), also considered a Moselle Franconian variant
  - Lorraine Franconian (Lothringisch), also considered a Moselle Franconian variant or general term for all Franconian dialects spoken in French Lorraine (francique lorrain)
- Rhine Franconian (Rheinfränkisch)
  - Palatinate German (Pfälzisch)
  - North Hessian (Nordhessisch)
  - East Hessian (Osthessisch)
  - Central Hessian (Mittelhessisch)
East Central German (Ostmitteldeutsch)
- Thuringian (Thüringisch)
- Upper Saxon (Obersächsisch)
- Erzgebirgisch
- North Upper Saxon (Nordobersächsisch)
- Lausitzisch-neumärkisch,[2] also Sorbian language area
- East Central German dialects spoken in the former eastern territories:
  - Silesian (Schlesisch), nearly extinct
  - High Prussian (Hochpreußisch), nearly extinct

gollark: https://a.osmarks.tk/www.computercraft.info/A/A/Redstone.getSides.html

gollark: I've made an offline copy of the old CC wiki, but I've had to use a not very good archiving tool due to its ancient MW version.

gollark: Maybe it was lost in the *incident*.

gollark: Stores could upload their current pricing/stock to a web API, and you could just query it to find the best place to buy something.

gollark: I think what would also be neat is a central price comparison/stock tracking system.

Notes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Middle German". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Ludwig Erich Schmitt (editor): Germanische Dialektologie). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968, p. 143

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Middle German". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Ludwig Erich Schmitt (editor): Germanische Dialektologie). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968, p. 143

Central German

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