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English: A map describing the principal dialect groupings of German (that is to be precise, the Westgermanic dialects of which Standard High German is the Dachsprache) after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans from the East. P. Wiesinger: Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte. In: Dialektologie.
German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
In Germany and other European countries, the abstand and ausbau language framework is used to decide what is a language and what is a dialect. [ citation needed ] According to this framework, Alemannic varieties of German form a dialect continuum and are clearly dialects.
Southern Germany (German: Süddeutschland, [ˈzyːtˌdɔʏtʃlant] ⓘ) is a region of Germany that includes the areas in which Upper German dialects are spoken, which includes the stem duchies of Bavaria and Swabia in present-day Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and the southern portion of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate that were part of the Duchy ...
In Central Germany (the Middle German area) there is a tendency towards dialect loss. [12] In Southern Germany (the Upper German area) dialects are still in use. [12] Dialects are declining in all regions except for Bavaria. [12] In 2008, 45% of Bavarians claimed to use only Bavarian in everyday communication. [14]
The region in Germany encompasses parts of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and of the Ruhr. The Low Franconian dialects have three different standard varieties: In the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname, it is Dutch, which is itself a Low Franconian language. In South Africa, it is Afrikaans, which is also categorized as Low Franconian.
Included in the ethnic German immigration to Mexico is the immigration from Austria, Switzerland, and the French region of Alsace which was part of France since the end of WWI, as well as that from Bavaria and High German regions of Germany. [citation needed]. As of 2012, about 20,000 Germans nationals resided in Mexico.
Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed region in eastern France that has passed between French and German control five times ...