Ripuarian (Ripoarish or Ripuarisch Platt) is a
West Germanic dialect group spoken in the
Rhineland, eastern
Belgium and southern
Dutch Limburg from northwest of
Düsseldorf and
Cologne to
Aachen in the west, and
Waldbröl in the east. It belongs to
Central Franconian and
Rhinelandic. The most famous member is
Kölsch, the dialect of Cologne. Dialects belonging to the Ripuarian group almost always call themselves Platt like
Öcher Platt (of
Aachen) or Eischwiele Platt (of
Eschweiler) or
Bönsch Platt (of
Bonn). The reason behind it is, most of the far more than hundred Ripuarian dialects are bound to a village or municipality, each. Usually there are small distinctive differences between neighboring dialects, and increasingly bigger ones between the more distant ones. These are described by a set of
isoglosses called the in linguistics. The way someone talks, even if he is not using Ripuarian, quite often allows to trace him precisely to a village or city quarter where he learned to speak.
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