East Franconian German
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East Franconian | |
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Ostfränkisch | |
Native to | Germany (Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse) |
Native speakers | 4,900,000 (2006)[1] |
Language family | Indo-European
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Writing system | Latin (German alphabet) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | vmf |
Glottolog | east2299 [2] |
1: East Franconian |
East Franconian (German: Ostfränkisch), usually referred to as Franconian (Fränkisch) in German, is a dialect which is spoken in Franconia, the northern part of the federal state of Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Meiningen, Bad Mergentheim, and Crailsheim. The major subgroups are Unterostfränkisch (spoken in Lower Franconia and southern Thuringia), Oberostfränkisch (spoken in Upper and Middle Franconia) and Südostfränkisch (spoken in some parts of Middle Franconia and Hohenlohe).
In the transitional area between Rhine Franconian in the northwest and the Austro-Bavarian dialects in the southeast, East Franconian has elements of Central German and Upper German. The same goes only for South Franconian German in adjacent Baden-Württemberg. East Franconian is one of the German dialects with the highest number of speakers.
The scope of East Franconian is disputed, because it overlaps with neighbour dialects like Bavarian and Swabian in the south, Rhine Franconian in the west and Upper Saxon in the north.
East Franconian is researched by "Fränkisches Wörterbuch" project in Fürth, which is run by Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Erlangen-Nuremberg university.
References
^ East Franconian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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See also
East Franconian German test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Franconia
External links
A High German – East Franconian dictionary with sound files (in German)
Linguistic atlas of Middle Franconia (in German)
Linguistic atlas of Lower Franconia (in German)
Fränkisches Wörterbuch (in German)
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaft (in German)
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