Moselle Franconian

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Moselle Franconian

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Calque of German Moselfränkisch.

proper noun Moselle-Franconian · Mosel Franconian

One of two subgroups of the Central Franconian dialects; spoken in the north-western half of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Siegerland, and parts of eastern Belgium; distinguished from the northern Ripuarian by a number of fairly parallel isoglosses, especially the Dorf-Dorf-Linie and also the Moselle Franconian diphthongization of Germanic -ī-, -ū-.

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name subgroup of the Central Franconian dialect

Deutsch	Moselfränkisch

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@misc{moselle_franconian_2026,
  title = {Moselle Franconian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moselle%20franconian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}