Kölsch
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dialect of the Ripuarian Central German group of languages
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [kœ̂ɫːlɕ]
- Native to
- Germany
- Region
- Cologne and environs
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German West Central German Central Franconian Ripuarian Central Ripuarian Colognian
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Frankish Old High Franconian Old Central Franconian Historic Colognian
- Iso 639 3
- ksh
- Linguist list
- ksh
- Glottolog
- kols1241
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Encyclopedic overview
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Colognian or Kölsch ( pronounced [kœ̂lɧ] , narrower [kœ̂ɫːʃ]; full name Kölsch Platt) is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian group of dialects of the Central German group. These dialects are spoken in the area covered by the Archdiocese and former Electorate of Cologne reaching from Neuss in the north to just south of Bonn, west to Düren and east to Olpe in northwest Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kölsch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.