Lorraine (Frankish) dialect

The Frankish Lorraine dialect ( German Lothringisch , French: Francique lorrain ) is the collective name for the Rhine-Frankish and Mosel-Frankish dialects that are common in Lorraine , including the Luxembourgish language . The dialect is widespread in the Moselle department and there is called a carrier plate (Lothringer Platt, Lothringer Déitsch). In French, for such dialects there is the concept of patois , to which Lorraine has long been ranked. Since the 1980s, the concept of francique ( Frankish ) has come into use, which has already made it possible to precisely distinguish the Lorraine- Middle German dialect from the Gallo-Roman Lorraine language . In the postwar period, the Frankish Lorraine dialect began to be squeezed out by the French language, like many other dialects in France . Born after 1945, speakers of the dialect speak it as a second language , but they rarely consider it native .

Lorraine dialect
Self name	Lothringisch
Country	France
Regions	Moselle
Classification
Category	Languages ​​of Eurasia
Indo-European family German branch West German group High German subgroup South German dialects
Writing	latin

The vocabulary of Lorraine dialects is described in detail in the Dictionary of German-Lorraine dialects