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| | D'Alsace en Lorraine |
 | | In the north of the departement of Moselle, in Luxembourg, in Saarland, in Rhineland-Palatinate and in northern Alsace (Hilly Alsace and Wissembourg area), dialects do not derive from Alemannic, but from Franconian. |
 | | This is the case of the dialect of western Moselle and of Luxembourgeois, as it is also the case of the dialects of eastern Moselle, of Rhineland and Saarland. |
 | | You have to imagine that Germany is a federal nation that has as many dialects as there are regions or "Länder": bavarian, lower saxon, frisian, berlinish, etc. Alemannic was the language used by the Alamans (or Alemanni) who occupied the region as soon as the fourth century. |
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