German-language dialects

Luxembourgish ( ; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.

West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands

group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family

variety of West Central German

Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France

German dialect group

Alemannic dialects spoken in the German-speaking part of Switzerland

earliest stage of the German language, spoken from 500/750 to 1050 AD

West Germanic language family

West Franconian dialect of German

Upper German dialect

historical form of High German

variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria and North Italy

German dialect or language spoken in Silesia

written and formal spoken German

dialect of the Ripuarian Central German group of languages

ensemble of Germanic dialects

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developmental stage of Low German that has evolved from the Old Saxon language in the High Middle Ages

West Germanic language family

West Middle German dialect

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major dialect group of West Low German

dialect family of West Central German

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East Middle German dialect

Germanic language spoken in Venezuela

Hunsrik (natively Hunsrik , Hunsrückisch or Hunsrickisch and Portuguese hunsriqueano or hunsriqueano riograndense), also called Riograndese Hunsrik, ''''' or ''''', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German which is spoken in parts of South America. A co-official language in the Brazilian municipalities of Antônio Carlos, Santa Maria do Herval, and São João do Oeste, Hunsrik is spoken in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná, as well as some regions of neighboring Paraguay and Argentina. It has been an integral

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set of Germanic dialects spoken in Moselle (France

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dialect of High Alemannic German

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Upper German dialect spoken by Hutterite communities in Canada and the US

German dialect spoken in Vienna

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High German dialect

group of German language dialects spoken by descendants of German immigrants who settled in Texas in the mid-19th century

dialect of West Central German

Swiss German dialect in Zurich

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East Low German dialect

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cluster of Upper German dialects

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dialect of East Low German

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The Marchian dialects (named after the March of Brandenburg; also called Brandenburgian or Brandenburgish; German: Brandenburgisch) are dialects of Low German, more precisely East Low German, spoken in Germany in the northern and western parts of Brandenburg (Uckermark, Prignitz and Mittelmark regions) as well as in northern Saxony-Anhalt (Altmark). The language area can be further divided into North-Markish (Stendal, Wittenberge, Prenzlau) and Middle-Markish (Brandenburg an der Havel).

thumb|Wenn der Rapp bleht in Piddaschwald, a poem in the dialect of Peterswald-Löffelscheid Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate). This mountainous region of Germany has long been an exporter of emigrants to Brazil, United States, Canada, Australia and other parts of the world.

group of East Central German dialects in former East Prussia

dialects of Bavarian

Kleverlandish (; ) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse and Rhine rivers.

thumb|Inscription in Gottscheerish on a plaque at the wall of the Chapel of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre|Holy Sepulchre near the Church of Corpus Christi in Trata, [[Kočevje]] thumb|The traditional Gottscherish placenames are not always the same as the German names thumb|The Gottscherish placenames show that the stage of the sound system of Gottscheerish is different from Standard German thumb|Name of the City of Kočevje in Slovene, German and Gottscheerish thumb|Melody and first strophe of the Gottscheer folk song Də mêrarin ("The Woman by the Sea")

German dialect