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Central German

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Also known as Middle German, Central German dialects, Middle German dialects

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
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
language family
Subclass of
High German
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Commons category
Central German dialects
writing system
Latin script
language of work or name
German
different from
Middle High German
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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.

Central German · Vinony