DescriptionMap of German dialects (according to Wiesinger & König).png
English: A map describing the principal dialect groupings of German (that is to be precise, the Westgermanic dialects of which Standard High German is the Dachsprache) after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans from the East.
P. Wiesinger: Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte. In: Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung, Berlin, New York, pp. 807-900
W. König: dtv-Altas Deutsche Sprache, 2019, Munich, pp. 230.
J. Goossens: Deutsche Dialektologie, Walter de Gruyter, 1977, pp. 48.
Legend:
Lines: the thin white/black dashed line represents the area in which two Dachsprachen are present: Luxemburgish and Standard German.
Striped lines: transitional dialect areas.
Frisian varieties: (orange)
2. Saterlandic, the last surviving dialect of East Frisian
3. North Frisian
Low Franconian varieties: (purple)
1. Low Rhenish
Low Saxon varieties: (blue)
4. Westphalian
5. North Low German
6. Eastphalian
7. Mecklenburgish-West Pomeranian
8. Brandenburgish
9. Middle Pomeranian
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