Central German
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dialect group
Key facts
- 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
- Subdivisions
- West Central German East Central German
- Glottolog
- fran1268
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- High German
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- topic's main category
- Category:Central German languages
- Commons category
- Central German dialects
- writing system
- Latin script
- language of work or name
- German
- different from
- Middle High German
- P13311
- Vosges
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Encyclopedic overview
Central German or Middle German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Central German” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.