Main Franconian dialects

Main Franconian
Spoken in	Bavaria , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Thuringia , Hesse
Linguistic ; classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Standard German Upper German East Franconian Main Franconian ;

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 .