Mainfränkisch language

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Mainfränkisch
Spoken in: Germany[1] 
Region: Northwestern, Westphalian[1]
Total speakers: unknown[1]
Language family: Indo-European
 Germanic
  West Germanic
   Middle Germanic
    West Middle Germanic
     Moselle Franconian[1]
      Mainfränkisch
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: gem [Germanic, other]
ISO 639-3: vmf

Mainfränkisch is a dialect of Middle High German, spoken primarily along the River Main, including the city of Mainz. The dialect is estimated by Ethnologue as 40% intelligible with Standard German.

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