# Rhinelandic > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rhinelandic > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rhinelandic.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinelandic > Source revision: 1226226636 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Refimprove|date=December 2009}} [[File:Rheinischer faecher.png|thumb|300px|Rhinelandic dialect continuum:
[Low Franconian](/source/Low_Franconian_languages) {{legend|yellow|(1) incl. [Brabantian](/source/Brabantian_dialect), [Kleverlandish](/source/Kleverlandish)}} {{legend|lightgreen|(2) incl. [Limburgish](/source/Limburgish_language)}} [West Central German](/source/West_Central_German) ([Central](/source/Central_Franconian_dialects) and [Rhine Franconian](/source/Rhine_Franconian_dialects)) {{legend|lightblue|(3) [Ripuarian](/source/Ripuarian_language)}} {{legend|blue|(4),(5) [Moselle Franconian](/source/Moselle_Franconian_dialects) (incl. [Luxembourgish](/source/Luxembourgish_language))}} {{legend|violet|(6) [Rhine Franconian](/source/Rhine_Franconian_dialects)}}]] '''Rhinelandic''' is a term occasionally used for linguistic varieties of a region on both sides of the [Middle](/source/Middle_Rhine) and [Lower Rhine](/source/Lower_Rhine) river in Central West [Germany](/source/Germany), [Belgium](/source/Belgium), the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands), and [Luxembourg](/source/Luxembourg), including some varieties of the [Limburgish language](/source/Limburgish_language) group, [Kleverlandish](/source/Kleverlandish), [Moselle Franconian](/source/Moselle_Franconian) and [Ripuarian](/source/Ripuarian_language).{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} The [Local language](/source/Local_language)s of villages or cities are commonly referred to as "the dialects" or "dialect". One of the meanings of ''Rhinelandic'' is that of a group of local languages in an area called the [Rhineland](/source/Rhineland). Another meaning is that of the [regiolect](/source/Rhinelandic_regiolect) being used by the people approximately of the same area.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} == Rhinelandic Local Languages == Alternatively, if ''Rhineland'' is seen as the territory of the former Prussian [Rhine Province](/source/Rhine_Province) (1815/1816–1945), there are 5 dialect areas:Michael Elmentaler, ''Sprachgrenzen und Sprachschichtungen im Rheinland: Zur sprachlichen Genese des »Rheinischen«'', in: Bernd Kortländer, Gunter E. Grimm (eds.), Joseph A. Kruse (series-ed.), ''»Rheinisch«: Zum Selbstverständnis einer Region'' (= ''Heinrich-Heine Institut Düsseldorf: Archiv, Bibliothek, Museum'' vol. 9), Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar, 2001, p. 119ff., here p. 120ff. * Kleverländisch * South Low Franconian * Ripuarian * Moselle Franconian * a small area with a part of [Rhine Franconian](/source/Rhenish_Franconian_languages) One can't speak of a Rhenish dialect area. Its northern areas are also covered by the more modern term of [Meuse-Rhenish](/source/Meuse-Rhenish), which exclusively refers to the [Low Franconian](/source/Low_Franconian) varieties mentioned above. The eastern areas in the North are also said to speak [Bergish](/source/Bergish_dialects), a term which has its roots in political history and regional pride rather than linguistic similarities. Likewise, the [Eifel](/source/Eifel) inhabitants say, they were speaking [Eifelplatt](/source/Eifelplatt), while linguists rather refer to the Ripuarian varieties of the North, and the Moselle-Franconian ones of the South of the Eifel. All these local languages and local language groups existed long before Standard German, and developed in parallel since the latter came into existence. == Rhinelandic Regiolect == {{main|Rhinelandic regiolect}} Also the [Regiolect](/source/Regiolect) of the [Rhineland](/source/Rhineland), geographically roughly coinciding with the former Prussian [Rhine Province](/source/Rhine_Province), is being called Rhinelandic. It is of comparatively recent origin, and derives from [Standard German](/source/Standard_German) but takes up some [lexic](/source/Vocabulary)al and [grammatical](/source/grammar) and [phonetic](/source/phonetics) features of the local languages, that Standard German normally does not have. Most of those features are not used in other German regiolects, and are often hardly or not understood in other regiolect areas. ''Rhenish'' ({{lang|de|Rheinisch}}) is a regiolect.Elvira Topalović, Julia Settinieri, ''Sprachliche Bildung'' (= ''LinguS - Linguistik und Schule: Von der Sprachtheorie zur Unterrichtspraxis'' vol. 8), Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, 2023, chapter ''3.1 Innere und äußere Mehrsprachigkeit'', in the definition of ''Standardvarietäten oder Standardlekte'': „[...] ''Regiolekten'' (z. B. Rheinisch), ''Dialekten'' (z. B. Kölsch), [...]“ ==See also== *[Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible](/source/Rhinelandic_Rhyming_Bible) *[Rhenish fan](/source/Rhenish_fan) == References == Category:Low Franconian languages Category:Ripuarian language Category:Central German languages --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rhinelandic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinelandic) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinelandic?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.