Central German

dialect group

Central German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a variant of two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German. Central German is spoken in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt.

Central German
Mitteldeutsch
Geographic
distribution:
Western and Central Germany, southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France
Linguistic classification:Indo-European
Subdivisions:

Central German dialects
  1: Ripuarian
  4: Hessian
  7: Thuringian