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 languages
surface form: Low Franconian area

Low German area
Ardennes-Eifel region
surface form: Moselle Franconian area
closelyRelatedTo Colognian
Limburgish
Rhenish Franconian
surface form: Moselle 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
surface form: Dutch language

French
surface form: French language

Low Franconian dialects
Standard German
languageFamily Germanic languages
High German languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

West Germanic languages
partOf Central German languages
surface form: West Central German
sharesIsoglossWith Limburgish (Dutch variety)
surface form: Limburgish

Rhenish Franconian
surface form: Moselle Franconian
spokenAlong Rhine
surface form: Rhine River
spokenIn Belgium
Cologne Bonn metropolitan region
surface form: Cologne region

Eupen-Malmedy region
Germany
Limburg Province
surface form: Limburg province

Netherlands
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland
subclassOf Central German languages
surface form: Central German dialects

High German dialects
usedFor carnival songs
local literature
regional oral communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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
this entity surface form: Ripuarian (Öcher Platt)
New High German includes Ripuarian
this entity surface form: Ripuarian dialects
Bergisches Land languageRegion Ripuarian
this entity surface form: Ripuarian dialect area