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Palatinate German
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pälzisch, Pfälzisch language, Pakatinate German dialect group, Pfälzisch, Palatinate German dialect, Pälzisch language, Palatinate German language, Pfaelzisch
West Franconian dialect of German
Key facts
- Native to
- Palatinate ; Pennsylvania Dutch Country
- Ethnicity
- Palatine
- Native speakers
- (undated figure of 400,000)
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser-Rhine Germanic West Central German Rhine Franconian Pfälzisch– Lothringisch Palatine German
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Frankish Old High Franconian Old Rhine Franconian
- Dialects
- Pennsylvania Dutch
- Writing system
- Latin ( German alphabet )
- Iso 639 3
- pfl
- Glottolog
- pala1330
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Palatine German (Standard German: Pfälzisch [ˈp͡fɛlt͡sɪʃ] , endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Odenwald, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to Alsace and Lorraine, in France, but also beyond.
The English term Palatine refers to the Palatinate region (German: Pfalz). Almost all traditional dialects of the Palatinate belong to the Palatine dialect group, but the Palatine speech area also extends to the west and east into neighboring regions (Saarland, Kurpfalz, southern Hesse). The main dialect divisions within Palatine German are Westpfälzisch (also called Hinterpfälzisch) and Vorderpfälzisch (also called Ostpfälzisch).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palatinate German” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.