East Franconian German
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In the transitional area between Rhine Franconian in the northwest and the Austro-Bavarian dialects in the southeast, East Franconian has elements of Central German and Upper German. The same goes only for South Franconian German in adjacent Baden-Württemberg. East Franconian is one of the German dialects with the highest number of speakers.
The scope of East Franconian is disputed, because it overlaps with neighbouring dialects like Bavarian and Swabian in the south, Rhine Franconian in the west and Upper Saxon in the north.
East Franconian is researched by the "Fränkisches Wörterbuch" project in Fürth, which is run by Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Erlangen-Nuremberg University.
Grouping
East Franconian is subdivided in multiple different ways.
One view differentiates three major sub-dialects:[1]
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- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Upper East Franconian): in the Würzburger Übergangsstreifen, Regnitz-Raum Obermain-Raum, Bayreuther-Raum, Obermain-Raum, Bayreuther-Raum, Nailaer-Raum, Plauener-Raum
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Lower East Franconian): in the Würzburger-Raum, subdivided in a Northern and Southern part, Coburger-Raum, Henneberger-Raum, Reußischer-Raum
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (South East Franconian)
Another view differentiates two major sub-dialects:[2]
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (East Franconian): in Franken and a part of Baden-Württemberg with Wertheim and Tauberbischofsheim and also in the Vogtland
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Lower East Franconian): in Unterfranken and in the Coburger and Henneberger Raum
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Upper East Franconian): in Ober- and Mittelfranken
A third view has:[3]
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- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Lower East Franconian)
- Script error: No such module "Lang".: around Meiningen – Suhl – Schmalkalden
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Lower East Franconian in a stricter sense): hohenlohischer Raum, Würzburger Raum
- Script error: No such module "Lang".: in the Würzburg area (Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- area between Unterostfränkisch and Oberostfränkisch: Script error: No such module "Lang".
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Upper East Franconian): Script error: No such module "Lang".
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See also
- Franconia
- Eberhard Wagner, German regional dialect researcher, in the dialect of Upper Franconia (East Franconian German).
References
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- ↑ Erich Straßner: Nordoberdeutsch. In: Lexikon der Germanistischen Linguistik. Herausgegeben von Hans Peter Althaus, Helmut Henne, Herbert Ernst Wiegand. 2nd ed., Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 1980 (1st ed. 1973), p. 479ff., here p. 481
- ↑ Hermann Paul: Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik. 25. Auflage neu bearbeitet von Thomas Klein, Hans-Joachim Solms und Klaus-Peter Wegera. Mit einer Syntax von Ingeborg Schöbler, neubearbeitet und erweitert von Heinz-Peter Prell. 25th ed., Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 2007, p. 7 [has Ostfränkisch divided into Oberostfränkisch and Unterostfränkisch and gives some geographical information]
- ↑ Peter Wiesinger: Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte. In: Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung. Herausgegeben von Werner Besch, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke, Herbert Ernst Wiegand. Zweiter Halbband. Volume 1.2 of Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1983, p. 807ff., here p. 842–846 (sub-chapter: Das Ostfränkische) and p. 862
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External links
- Linguistic atlas of Middle Franconia Template:In lang
- Linguistic atlas of Lower Franconia Template:In lang
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaft Template:In lang
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