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  German Language - MSN Encarta
German belongs to the Netherlandic-German group within the western branch of the Germanic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
Another characteristic of German, as well as of all the Germanic languages, is that the principal accent falls regularly upon the first syllable of a word; in verbal combinations, however, the root syllable, not the prefix, is stressed.
German is an inflected language, with three genders, four cases, and a strong and weak declension of qualifying adjectives.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Low Franconian languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Limburgian (Dutch: Limburgs, German: Limburgisch, French: Limbourgeois) is a group of Franconian varieties, spoken in the Limburg and Selfkant regions, near the common Dutch/Flemish(Belgium)/German border.
Central German (in German: Mitteldeutsch) is a group of German dialects spread from the Rhineland to Thuringia, south of Low German and north of Upper German.
Subdivisions Central German Upper German High German (in German, Hochdeutsch) is any of several German dialects spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Luxembourg (as well as in neighbouring portions of Belgium, France (Alsace), Italy, Poland, and Romania (Transylvania) and in some areas of former colonial settlement, for example in...
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 East Franconian German Information
East Franconian is one of the German dialects with the highest number of speakers.
The scope of East Franconian is disputed, mainly in its extent in Eastern Germany and whether Nuremberg, the second-largest city of Bavaria is to be included.
Within one of the definitions the border of East Franconian is to include Erlangen and to exclude neighboring Nuremberg.
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 South Franconian German Information
South Franconian (Südfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in Baden in Germany around Karlsruhe, Pforzheim and Rastatt.
South Franconian is one of the High German dialects with the lowest number of speakers.
South Franconian is not considered a separate dialect by some observers.
www.bookrags.com /South_Franconian   (63 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lower Franconian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa.
In the past Low-Franconian dialects were also spoken in the German area along the Rhine between Cologne and the German borders.
Together with Low Saxon and East Low German, these form the Low Germanic family of languages.
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 Ethnologue report for Germany
Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.
Standard German is one High German variety, which developed from the chancery of Saxony, gaining acceptance as the written standard in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dialects: German with a heavy cryptolectal lexical influsion from Rotwelsch, Yiddish, Romani, and Hebrew.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Franconia (German: Franken) is a historic region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria and the area to its immediate west.
At the failure of the direct Carolingian male line in 911, Conrad was acclaimed King of the Germans, largely because of his weak position in his own duchy.
In 1093, the Salian Franconian territories were granted as a fief to the Count Palatine of Aachen, a territory that would evolve into the important German principality of the Rhenish Palatinate.
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 info: Franconian_German
Main-Franconian; South Franconian German References ^ The tribal settlement of the Franks between 260 and 537 saw them expand slowly from the border of the Rhine...
South Franconian German: Information from Answers.comSouth Franconian German South Franconian (Südfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in Baden in Germany around Karlsruhe, Pforzheim and Rastatt
East Franconian German: Definition and Much More from Answers.comEast Franconian German East Franconian German East Franconian (Ostfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in Bavaria and other areas in Germany
www.napoli-pizza.net /Franconian_German.html   (316 words)

  
 Alsatian language, alphabet and pronunciation
Alsatian is a German Alemannic dialect spoken in Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times during its history.
Alsatian is not easily intelligible to speakers of standard German, but is closely related to other Alemannic dialects, such as Swiss German and Swabian.
Many speakers write in standard German, although street names, which were formerly only in French, may use local spellings.
www.omniglot.com /writing/alsatian.htm   (231 words)

  
 LAKGD-Linguistic Atlas of Kansas German Dialects
German homeland dialects are divided into three major groups:
German-speaking immigrants to Kansas speak dialects from all three regions.
West Upper German and North Upper German pronounce the 2nd person plural object pronoun "you (all)" as
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 franconian - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Franconian : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include franconian: old franconian, franconian dialect, franconian german, franconian saale, low saxon low franconian languages, more...
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