(geography, historical) A historic region of Germany comprising the northern area of modern Bavaria and lands to its immediate west.

Of or relating to Franconia or its inhabitants. / Of or relating to Franconian (dialect family).

A native or inhabitant of Franconia.

A linguistic marker for a number of West Germanic languages and dialects spoken in the former core of the Frankish Empire: Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) and western Germany. Within these groups there are a number of well known languages and dialects, such as Dutch and Afrikaans but also the Pennsylvania German language spoken in North America.

The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.

A group of continental West Germanic languages and dialects; spoken chiefly in the Netherlands, Flanders, and the Lower Rhine area of Germany.

one of two main subgroups of the West Central German dialects; spoken in the north-western half of Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western North Rhine-Westphalia, easternmost Belgium, and southeasternmost Limburg (Netherlands); distinguished from Rhine Franconian by the use of dat (“that”) and wat (“what”), and the consistent pronunciation of Germanic -β- as a fricative (i.e. [v], or [f] when now in coda position).

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, of which the Moselle Franconian diphthongization of Germanic -ī-, -ū- is the most important.

one of two main subgroups of the West Central German dialects; spoken in Hesse, the southeastern half of Rhineland-Palatinate, northernmost Baden-Württemberg, and traditionally in Lorraine (France); distinguished from Central Franconian by the use of das (“that”) and was (“what”), and the pronunciation of Germanic -β- as a stop [p] when now in coda position.

one of four main subgroups of the Upper German dialects; spoken in the region of Franconia in northern Bavaria as well as some adjacent parts of Germany