Ripuarian

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Ripuarian is a group of closely related West Central German dialects spoken primarily in the Cologne region and surrounding areas along the Rhine.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Ripuarian canonical 2
Ripuarian (Öcher Platt) 1
Ripuarian dialect area 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German dialect continuum variety
West Central German dialect group
borderedByDialectArea Limburgish area
Low Franconian area
Low German area
Moselle Franconian area
closelyRelatedTo Colognian
Limburgish
Moselle Franconian
linked to: Rhenish Franconian
endangeredStatus declining intergenerational transmission
hasDialects Aachen dialect
Bonn dialect
Colognian
Eifel dialects
Siegerland dialects
hasFeature distinctive pitch accent in Colognian
partial High German consonant shift
strong regional lexical variation
tonal accents in some varieties
hasGlottocode ripu1236
hasISOCode ksh
hasStandardVariety Colognian
influencedBy Dutch language
linked to: Dutch

French language
linked to: French

Low Franconian dialects
Standard German
languageFamily Germanic languages
High German languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
partOf West Central German
sharesIsoglossWith Limburgish
Moselle Franconian
linked to: Rhenish Franconian
spokenAlong Rhine River
linked to: Rhine
spokenIn Belgium
Cologne region
Eupen-Malmedy region
Germany
Limburg province
linked to: Limburg Province

Netherlands
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland
subclassOf Central German dialects
High German dialects
usedFor carnival songs
local literature
regional oral communication
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aachen localDialect Ripuarian (Öcher Platt)
linked to: Ripuarian
New High German includes Ripuarian dialects
linked to: Ripuarian
Bergisches Land languageRegion Ripuarian dialect area
linked to: Ripuarian