Dialects in Rhineland-Palatinate

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The Rhenish fan
1: Lower Franconian
2: Limburgish
3: Ripuarian
4: Northern Moselle Franconian with Luxembourgish
5: Southern Moselle Franconian
6: Rhine Franconian

The dialects in Rhineland-Palatinate are assigned to various groups in the West Central German languages . Ripuarian and Mosel Fränkisch (with Luxembourgish ) together form the means at Rhein means Frankish represented by the above Hunsrück and Taunus extending so-called DAT-the-line ( St. Goar line) from the adjacent south Rhein Fränkischen is deferred.

All of the language groups mentioned are assigned to the Rhenish fan , which includes other dialects north of Rhineland-Palatinate. The transition area to the Upper German-speaking area begins south-east of the so-called Speyerer line (Appel-Apfel-Isoglosse) .

• Middle Franconian
  • A transition dialect to Ripuarian , also called Rhenish , is spoken in the southern Bonn area as well as in the Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and Linz regions . Because these territories have belonged to the Electorate of Cologne for centuries , the language border runs on the right bank of the Rhine between Leubsdorf and Bad Hönningen . On the left bank of the Rhine , it continues south of Bad Breisig and north of Brohl as the so-called Vinxtbach line .
  • The area in which Northern and Southern Moselle Franconian (with Luxembourgish, which is part of the Northern Moselle Franconian ) is spoken, extends in the Rhine - Moselle region from west of the Eifel in a north-easterly direction to over the Middle Rhine into (west of Siegen rhineland - Palatinate) Siegerland and in the Westerwald .

• Rhine Franconian
  • Palatine dialects are mainly spoken in the Palatinate and in the adjacent southeastern parts of the Hunsrück.
  • the Rheinhessen (52-ACB-dei) in Rheinhessen (including Mainz )
  • For Südhessische only the dialects expected in Rhineland-Palatinate from Ingelheim am Rhein and a few surrounding communities.

• South Franconian
  • A small area in the southeast of the southern Palatinate is counted as part of the South Rhine-Franconian dialect area, because Alemannic dialects from Alsace and central Baden influenced the expression of the language there.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helga Bister-Broosen: Language change in the dialect of Krefeld . Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, vol. 3, New York 1989, p. 10.