Central German

dialect group

Central German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a variant of two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German. Central German is spoken in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt.

Central German
Mitteldeutsch
Geographic
distribution
Western and Central Germany, southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologfran1268
Central German dialects
  1: Ripuarian
  4: Hessian
  7: Thuringian