Indo-European · ISO 639-3 vmf
Mainfränkisch Language Ostfränkisch
Mainfränkisch is an Indo-European language spoken by about 4.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Mainfränkisch is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mainfränkisch
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Upper German
- Middle-Modern High German
- Modern High German
- Upper Franconian
- Greater East Franconian
- Mainfränkisch
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Mainfränkisch language
Mainfränkisch (Ostfränkisch) is spoken by about 4.8 million people, which makes it the 192nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Balinese (4.8 million) and ahead of Huizhou Chinese (4.6 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Greater East Franconian group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Mainfränkisch spoken?
Mainfränkisch is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Germany (5.0 million).
Mainfränkisch is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Mainfränkisch is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are German, Bavarian, Swiss German, Hunsrik, Upper Saxon, Limburgan and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 vmf.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.