Colognian

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Colognian is a Central Ripuarian Franconian dialect of German spoken primarily in and around the city of Cologne.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Colognian canonical 6
Colognian culture 1
Colognians 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Ripuarian Franconian dialect
German dialect
language variety
closelyRelatedTo Kölsch dialects
Moselle Franconian
linked to: Rhenish Franconian

other Ripuarian dialects
culturalSignificance marker of local identity in Cologne
distinctFrom Dutch
Low German
Standard German
hasAlternativeName Cologne dialect
Kölsch dialect
hasDialect Bergisches Kölsch
linked to: Kölsch

Linksrheinisches Kölsch
Stadt-Kölsch
linked to: Kölsch

Umland-Kölsch
linked to: Kölsch
hasEndonym Kölsch
hasGrammaticalFeature case system with nominative and accusative
periphrastic perfect tense
three-gender system
use of articles with personal names
verb-second word order
hasPhonologicalFeature Rhenish pitch accent
contrastive vowel length
lenition of plosives
uvular realization of /r/
ISOStatus not assigned separate ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
nativeTo Cologne
Lower Rhine region
partOf German language
linked to: German
region Central Ripuarian area
Cologne area
spokenIn Cologne
Cologne metropolitan region
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland
subclassOf High German
Ripuarian Franconian
linked to: Rhenish Franconian

West Central German
usedIn Cologne Carnival
local music of Cologne
regional theatre in Cologne
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Ripuarian hasDialects Colognian
Ripuarian hasStandardVariety Colognian
Ripuarian closelyRelatedTo Colognian
Kölsch altName Colognian
Kölsch spokenBy Colognians
linked to: Colognian
North Rhine hasCulturalRegion Colognian culture
linked to: Colognian