Siegerländisch

Siegerländisch (German: Siegerländisch, locally called Sejerlännr Pladd) is the northeasternmost dialect of the Moselle Franconian Dialect Group. Siegerländisch is spoken in the region around the city of Siegen in Germany. The dialect is also spoken in parts of northern Altenkirchen as well as parts of the Westerwaldkreis. It has strong lexical similarities to the Hessian dialects and to South Westphalian, which are spoken in surrounding regions. It belongs to the West Central German branch of the High German languages. It is bounded on the north by the Benrath line, which separates it from the Westphalian language and thus from Low German, as well as on the east by the Sankt Goar line and on the west by the Eifel and the Ripuarian language.