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
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- Central German dialects
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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.
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