sproch) (spoken in an alpine valley of Trentino – Bersntol in Mocheno and Valle del Fersina in Italian) Cimbrian (Zimbar) Seven Communities (Siben Komoin) (currently only the village of Roana (Robàan)) Luserna (spoken in Luserna, Lusern, Trentino) Thirteen Communities (Dreizehn Komoin) (spoken currently only in the village of Giazza (Ljetzan)) Dialects of the villages in the Carnic Alps (spoken in Sappada, Sauris and Timau) Weser-Rhine Germanic (Istvaeonic) (mainly it was the language of the Franks) West Central German (Central / Middle Franconian) (descends from Weser-Rhine Germanic and participate in the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum) Rhenish Franconian / Rhine Franconian Hessian (Hessisch) Northern Hessian (around the city of Kassel) Central Hessian (including the Marburg and Gießen areas) Eastern Hessian (around Fulda) Southern Hessian (in Darmstadt (region), basis of Frankfurt dialect) (meaning of Frankfurt name = Frank ford) Hessian-Palatinate diaspora Koiné (of German diaspora in the Low Volga region) Volga German (Wolgadaitsch) (mainly originated from Hessian and Palatine – Rhine Franconian dialects of Germans who migrated to the Low Volga river basin) (spoken by the Volga Germans) Palatinate German / Rhenish Palatinate (Pälzisch) (Pfaelzisch–Lothringisch) East Palatinate West Palatinate Palatinate Hunsrückisch / Rhenish Franconian Hunsrückisch (Hunsrückisch has two varieties, a Rhenish Franconian or Palatinate and a Moselle Franconian one) Lotharingian (Lothringisch) (traditionally spoken in far northern Lorraine, northern France) (here it has the narrow sense of a variant part of the West Palatinate) Rhenish Palatinate / Rhenish Franconian diaspora dialects/languages Galician German (Galiziendeutsch) (spoken by the Galician Germans) Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania "Dutch") (Deitsch / Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch) (Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch is the self name or autonym of the language, "Deitsch" and "Dutch" are cognates but now have different meanings: one for Germanic language in a broad sense, not only for German in a narrow sense, and the other for specifically the Dutch or Nederlandic language, leading to the name Pennsylvania Dutch for the language in English due to the similarity of names) Central Franconian proper Moselle Franconian East Moselle Franconian Moselle Hunsrückisch (Hunsrückisch has two varieties, a Moselle Franconian variety and a Rhenish Franconian or Palatinate one) Moselle Hunsrückisch dialect diaspora Hunsrik (Hunsrückisch / Riograndenser Hunsrückisch) (mainly spoken in some areas of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná states, Southern Brazil, South America) (mainly descends from the Moselle Franconian Hunsrückisch) Siegerländisch (spoken in far southern Westphalia, in modern North Rhine-Westphalia state) Nassauisch (spoken in Nassau (region), east of the Moselle and