Dialects in the High form of this European language include Thuringian, Silesian & Franconian
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German language - Wikipedia  German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most ... Major languages which are most similar to German include other members of the West Germanic language ..... North Hessian, Thuringian, Silesian German, Lorraine Franconian, Mittelalemannisch, North Upper Saxon, High...
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High German languages - Wikipedia  Linguistic classification: Indo-European  Germanic  West Germanic  Irminones. High German. Subdivisions: Yiddish  Central German  High Franconian German  Upper German  Glottolog: high1286. The High German languages or High German dialects (German: Hochdeutsche Dialekte) ... High Franconian, in the transitional area between Central and Upper...
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Colognian dialect - Wikipedia  Colognian or Klsch is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian Central German group of languages. ... Indo-European ... Almost all speakers are also fluent in standard or high German. ... the Rhinelandic or rheinisch dialects  as opposed to the regiolect), which belong to the West Franconian...
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German dialects - Wikipedia  German dialect is dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, ... Low German, most Upper German, High Franconian dialects, and even some Central German dialects when spoken in their purest form, are not intelligible to ... It was the predominant language in Northern Germany, and several...
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Silesian German - Wikipedia  Silesian German or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct German dialect spoken in Silesia. It is part of the East Central German language area with some West Slavic ... Silesian German appears to derive from 12th-century dialects of Middle High ... forms of Upper Saxon German, East Franconian German and Thuringian.
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German language - Wikipedia  German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and (co-)official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein; it is also an official, but not majority language of Luxembourg. ... The German speaking countries are ranked fifth in terms of annual...
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Luxembourgish! - Duolingo  It's an interesting language, and I'd like to visit Luxembourg! :) .... about it besides from my Duolingo Dutch course and some random bits of German I know. 1 .... I didn't ask if Luxembourgish is a dialect of German, I asked if it is mutually ... The spoken language is extremely close to German with a few French words thrown in.
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Dialects  It sometimes happens that those who use a particular dialect of a language .... The Doric dialect was used in Doris, Argos, Laconia, Messenia, Crete, Sicily,...
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jeopardy/1502_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Round: EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, ACTING POLITICIANS, THE FABULOUS ... Modern dialects of this language include Gronings, West-Vlaams & Brabants |...
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Indo-European languages - Wikipedia  The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects. ... In the 16th century, European visitors to the Indian subcontinent began to notice similarities among Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and European languages. .... Sicel: an ancient language spoken by the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi, Latin Siculi),...
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Bavarian language - Wikipedia  Bavarian is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area, largely covered by Bavaria and Austria. It forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional .... Some dialects, such as the Bavarian dialect in South Tyrol, realize /k/ as an affricate [kx]...
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The Portuguese Language - Lisbon  An introduction to the Portuguese language and its origins. ... even today Galician remains a regional dialect, under the official hegemony of Spanish. ... C has an "s" sound before "e" and "i";  functions as in French, pronounced as an "s" ... otherwise it sounds like the "s" in "sun"; Z at the end of a word is pronounced "sh"...
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I read that 50% of the educational time in Luxembourg is devoted to ...  Apr 2, 2015 ... As I was asked to answer I can only comment on Germany. everybody, no matter ... Some even learn Chinese, but I guess as a third language. ... a week of French language tuition and presumably Luxembourgish tuition as well, ... in reality you could consider Luxembourgish a dialect of German, like Swiss...
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Languages of Belgium - Wikipedia  The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as well. English is widely spoken throughout Belgium as a foreign language. .... LSFB, or French Belgian Sign Language, is spoken primarily in Wallonia and Brussels and...
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Languages of Austria - Wikipedia  The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; ... The northern parts of Austria (including Vienna, the capital) speak Central ... for German speakers of different regions to understand the native population.
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Languages of Liechtenstein - Wikipedia  Liechtenstein's official language is German, and the principality is the smallest of the four ... The Highest Alemannic-speaking part of Liechtenstein is marked in red, ... The local German dialect is Alemannic, a dialect (sometimes considered a...
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Why German? | Middlebury  One of the three official languages of the European Union, German is spoken by more than 120 million people worldwide (around 95 million in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein). It is also one of the most widely...
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Pennsylvania German language - Wikipedia  Pennsylvania German is a variety of West Central German spoken by the Amish and Old Order Mennonites in the United States and Canada, closely related to the Palatine dialects. There are possibly more than 300,000 native speakers in North America. It has traditionally been the language of the Pennsylvania Dutch, ... The English original is found in the first column, and a Standard German...
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Field Listing - Languages - The World Factbook  Central ...  note: English is the predominant second language ... note: only the 24 official languages are listed; German, the major language ... Guernsey, English, French, Norman-French dialect spoken in country ..... note: the following are recognized regional languages: Scots (about 30% of the population of Scotland), Scottish Gaelic...
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Culture of Austria - history, people, clothing, women, beliefs, food ...  Austrians call their country Osterreich (eastern empire). ... Austria is divided into nine provinces, Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg, Upper Austria, ... is German, and approximately 98 percent of the population speaks High German or a dialect of it. .... Germans in AustriaHungary divided into three political groups, called Lager...
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Country Guide: LUXEMBOURG (washingtonpost.com)  The southwestern section is part of the Luxembourg-Lorraine iron-mining basin, once one ... which is a prevailing Low German dialect, the duchy is called Letzeburg. ... The grand duchy is a constitutional monarchy governed under the revised ... (originally Ltzelburg), extending between the Meuse and Moselle rivers and...