Ripuarian language
Ripuarian (/ˌrɪpjuˈɛəriən/; also Ripuarian Franconian; German: [Ripuarisch, ripuarische Mundart, ripuarischer Dialekt, ripuarisch-fränkische Mundart, Ribuarisch] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a variant of West Central German.
| Ripuarian | |
|---|---|
| Ripoarisch | |
| Native to | Germany, Belgium, Netherlands |
| Region | North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Liège Province, Limburg |
| Native speakers | ≈ 900,000 (date missing)[source?] |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None Individual code: ksh – Kölsch |
Area where Ripuarian is spoken. Green = sparsely populated forest. | |
Central German language area after 1945 and the expulsion of the Germans from the east. 1 = Ripuarian. | |
| This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Ripuarian language edition. |