Main Franconian dialects
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Mainfränkisch is a dialect group of East Franconian .
Language area
The Main Franconian dialect area extends in a wide strip along the Germersheim line . This isogloss separates the Central German so-called "Pund" - from the Upper German "Pfund" dialect. The first group includes the Rhine Franconian and the latter the South Rhine and Main Franconian. The Salzbogen and the Rennsteig form clear language boundaries to the north and northeast . In the east, south and west, the language border roughly coincides with the old territorial borders of the dioceses of Bamberg and Würzburg from the High and Late Middle Ages . In the east and to the south-east, the language border is therefore called the Bamberg barrier .
Main Franconian dialects are predominantly spoken in the following areas today:
- in the administrative districts of Lower , Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria ,
- in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg ,
- in the districts of Schmalkalden-Meiningen , Hildburghausen and Sonneberg and in the independent city of Suhl in southern Thuringia .
Main Franconian dialects
- Taubergründisch (Bavaria: Kreuzwertheim ; Baden-Württemberg: Tauberbischofsheim , old county of Wertheim )
- Lower Franconian (Bavaria: Würzburg , Schweinfurt ; Haßberge ; Baden-Württemberg: northeastern part of the Main-Tauber district )
- Grabfeldisch (Bavaria: Bad Königshofen , Mellrichstadt , Bad Neustadt ; Thuringia: Römhild , Frankenheim )
- Hennebergisch (Thuringia: Meiningen , Zella-Mehlis , Suhl , Schleusingen ; Bavaria: Ostheim )
- Itzgründisch (Bavaria: Coburg , Neustadt , Michelau ; Thuringia: Sonneberg , Hildburghausen , Eisfeld , Heldburg )
- Bambergisch (Bavaria: Bamberg , Forchheim , Erlangen )
Adjacent mixed dialects
The Osthessische is a mixed dialect of East Frankish and Rhenish Franconian ( Hessisch considered).
The Westthüringische ( Ringgauische ) is a mixed dialect of East Frankish and Thuringian-Upper Saxon , partly viewed with slight Hessian influences.
literature
- Jens Sobisch: Franconian. The German of the Franks. Reise Know-How, ISBN 3894164743 , also as audio CD.
- Eberhard Wagner, Alfred Klepsch; Commission for dialect research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of Bavarian Francs. Franconian Day, Bamberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936897-52-4 . 3rd, unchanged edition, ibid. 2008.