High Franconian German
| High Franconian | |
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| Oberfränkisch | |
| Geographic distribution | Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Saxony |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | uppe1464 (Upper Franconian) |
 Upper German dialects after 1945, with High Franconian in red and purple
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High Franconian or Upper Franconian (German: Oberfränkisch) is a part of High German consisting of East Franconian and South Franconian.[1] It is part of the Franconian languages area, spoken southeast of the Rhine Franconian area. It is spoken in Germany around Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Heilbronn, Meiningen and Würzburg and a small area in France. It is disputed whether it makes sense to summarise East and South Franconian because both are different.
High Franconian is transitional between Upper German and Central German but usually regarded as Upper German, for political reasons, with similarity to Yiddish.
References[]
- ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German Dialects. New York / Berne / Frankfort on the Main, Peter Lang, p. 119.
See also[]
- Franconian languages
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