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Lorraine Franconian (Lorraine Franconian: ''Plàtt'', ''lottrìnger Plàtt''; (フランス語:francique lorrain, platt lorrain); (ドイツ語:Lothringisch)) is a designation, in practice ambiguous, for dialects of West Central German ((ドイツ語:Westmitteldeutsch)), a group of High German dialects spoken in the Moselle département in the north-eastern French region of Lorraine (See Linguistic boundary of Moselle). == Description == The term ''Lorraine Franconian'' has multiple denotations. Some scholars use it to refer to the entire group of West Central German dialects spoken in the French Lorraine region. Others use it more narrowly to refer to the Moselle Franconian dialect spoken in the valley of the river Nied (in Pays de Nied, whose largest town is Boulay-Moselle), to distinguish it from the other two Franconian dialects spoken in Lorraine, Luxembourgish to the west and Rhine Franconian to the east. For the year 1806, they was 218,662 speakers in Moselle and 41,795 speakers in Meurthe.〔Sébastien Bottin, ''Mélanges sur les langues, dialectes et patois'', Paris, 1831.〕 In part due to the ambiguity of the term, estimations of the number of speakers of Lorraine Franconian in France vary widely, ranging from 30,000〔Auburtin〕 to 400,000〔(Langues régionales.org (Platt lorrain) )〕 (which would make it the 3rd most-spoken regional language in France, after Occitan and Alsatian). The most reliable data come from the ''Enquête famille'' carried out by INSEE (360,000 in the 1962 census) as part of the 1999 census, but they give a somewhat indirect picture of the current situation (see Languages in France for a discussion of this survey). Approximately 78,000 people were reported to speak Lorraine Franconian, but fewer than 50,000 passed basic knowledge of the language on to their children. Another statistic illustrating the same point: Of all adult men who used Franconian regularly at age 5, less than 30% use (or used) the language regularly with their own children.〔Héran〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lorraine Franconian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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