[1] It is spoken southeast of the Rhine Franconian area.

It is spoken in Germany around Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Heilbronn, Meiningen and Würzburg and a small area in France.

[citation needed] High Franconian is transitional between Upper German and Central German but usually regarded as Upper German.

[citation needed] It is disputed whether it makes sense to summarise East and South Franconian because both are different.

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