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| East Franconian | ||
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| Ostfränkisch | ||
| Spoken in | Germany (Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony) | |
| Total speakers | — | |
| Language family | Indo-European
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| Writing system | Latin (German variant) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | gem | |
| ISO 639-3 | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
East Franconian (Ostfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in northern Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth and Suhl. The major subgroup is Main-Franconian. The Vogtländisch and Erzgebirgisch dialects spoken in western Saxony (Vogtland and Ore Mountains region) around Plauen segue into Upper Saxon German.
In the transient 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, mainly in its extent in Nuremberg, the second-largest city of Bavaria. Within one of the definitions the border of East Franconian is to include Erlangen and to exclude neighboring Nuremberg as a part of the Northern Austro-Bavarian language area.
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