Ripuarian language

Ripuarian (/ˌrɪpjuˈɛəriən/; also Ripuarian Franconian; German: Ripuarisch, ripuarische Mundart, ripuarischer Dialekt, ripuarisch-fränkische Mundart, Ribuarisch) 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[source?]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German West Central German Central Franconian Ripuarian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis) Individual code: ksh – Kölsch
Glottolog	ripu1236
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.