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Where is Ostfränkisch spoken?

Ostfränkisch (Meefrängisch) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Germany. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Ostfränkisch is spoken

Ostfränkisch is spoken in one country: Germany. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Germany6%5,047,146

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Ostfränkisch has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Ostfränkisch?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Ostfränkisch sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Ostfränkisch as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. High German
  7. Upper German
  8. Middle-Modern High German
  9. Modern High German
  10. Upper Franconian
  11. Greater East Franconian
  12. Ostfränkisch

More about Ostfränkisch

Codes: ISO 639-3 vmf, Glottolog main1267. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Ostfränkisch

Where is Ostfränkisch spoken?

Ostfränkisch is spoken in Germany. Unicode CLDR puts it at 6% of the population of Germany, which is about 5,047,146 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Ostfränkisch in?

Glottolog places Ostfränkisch in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Upper German, Middle-Modern High German, Modern High German, Upper Franconian and Greater East Franconian.

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