Central German

Central German
Mitteldeutsch
Geographic distribution:	Western and Central Germany, southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German
Subdivisions:	West Central German East Central German
Central German dialects   1: Ripuarian   2: Moselle Franconian   3: Luxembourgish   4: Hessian   5: Palatinate German   6: Lorraine Franconian   7: Thuringian   8: Upper Saxon   9: Erzgebirgisch   10: Lusatian-Silesian   11: South Marchian

Central German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a variant of two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German. Central German is spoken in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt.