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15-504: Hardtberg ( Ripuarian : Hardtbersch ) is a borough ( Stadtbezirk ) of Bonn , Germany. It has a population of 34,576 (2018). Hardtberg is twinned with: This Bonn location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ripuarian language It is spoken in the Rhineland south of the Benrath line — from northwest of Düsseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in

30-558: A 2020 analysis conducted by Pew Research Center using 2017 data from Eurostat , the most popular non-English foreign languages learned in German primary and secondary schools were French (15%), Spanish (5%) and Russian (1%), with others garnering less than 1% each. During the existence of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, 1949–1990), the most common second language taught there was Russian, while English and French were

45-425: A village or city quarter where they learned to speak. About a million people speak a variation of Ripuarian dialect, which constitutes about one quarter of the inhabitants of the area. Penetration of Ripuarian in everyday communication varies considerably, as does the percentage of Ripuarian speakers from one place to another. In some places there may only be a few elderly speakers left, while elsewhere Ripuarian usage

60-404: Is German , with over 95 percent of the country speaking Standard German or a dialect of German as their first language . This figure includes speakers of Northern Low Saxon , a recognized minority or regional language that is not considered separately from Standard German in statistics. Recognized minority languages have official status as well, usually in their respective regions. Neither

75-517: Is a tendency towards dialect loss. In Southern Germany (the Upper German area) dialects are still in use. Dialects are declining in all regions except for Bavaria . In 2008, 45% of Bavarians claimed to use only Bavarian in everyday communication. Recognized minority languages include: Germany ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages on 16 September 1998 for

90-488: Is common in everyday life. Both in the genuine Ripuarian area and far around it, the number of people passively understanding Ripuarian to some extent exceeds the number of active speakers by far. Speakers are centred on the German city of Köln ( Cologne ). The language's distribution starts from the important geographic transition into the flat-lands coming down from the Middle Rhine . The Ripuarian varieties are related to

105-917: The Moselle Franconian languages spoken in the southern Rhineland ( Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ) in Germany, to the Luxembourgish language in Luxembourg , and to the Low Franconian Limburgish language in the Dutch province of Limburg . Most of the historic roots of Ripuarian languages are in Middle German , but there were other influences too, such as Latin , Low German , Dutch , French and Southern Meuse-Rhenish ( Limburgish ). Several elements of grammar are unique to Ripuarian and do not exist in

120-410: The 1939 Census asked for the mother tongue of the population. According to a 2020 Pew Research survey, the most commonly spoken languages at home were: The questionnaire did not distinguish Standard German from German dialects . The German language area is characterized by a range of different dialects. There is a written and spoken standard language but there are also large differences in

135-407: The 1987 West German census nor the 2011 census inquired about language. Starting with the 2017 microcensus (a survey with a sampling fraction of 1% of the persons and households in Germany that supplies basic sociodemographic data and facilitates ongoing monitoring of the labor market), a question asking, "Which language is spoken predominantly in your household?" was added, nearly eighty years since

150-536: The area from the 4th century onward. The most well known Ripuarian dialect is Kölsch , the local dialect of Cologne . Dialects belonging to the Ripuarian group almost always call themselves Platt (spelled plat in the Netherlands) like Öcher Platt (of Aachen ), Bönnsch Platt (of Bonn ), Eischwiele Platt (of Eschweiler ), Kirchröadsj plat (of Kerkrade ), or Bocheser plat (of Bocholtz ). Most of

165-502: The following languages in respect of specific Länder : Immigrant languages spoken by sizable communities of first and second-generation (dominant origin of the speakers in brackets): At least 81% of the German primary and secondary students were learning English as their first foreign language in 2017. However, German schoolchildren generally do not speak English as proficiently as their Scandinavian counterparts and, in some cases, French or Latin are taught first. According to

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180-533: The more than one hundred Ripuarian dialects are bound to one specific village or municipality. Usually there are small distinctive differences between neighbouring dialects (which are, however, easily noticeable to locals), and increasingly bigger differences between the more distant dialects. These are described by a set of isoglosses called the Rhenish fan in linguistics. The way people talk, even if they are not using Ripuarian, often allows them to be traced precisely to

195-726: The other languages of Germany . The French Community of Belgium as well as the Netherlands officially recognise some Ripuarian dialects as minority languages , and the European Union likewise follows. Varieties are or include: The transcription from Münch, in which the grave accent (`) and macron (¯) represent, respectively, accent 1 and 2 in the Central/Low Franconian pitch accent . Ripuarian (excluding City- Colognian ) emphasised personal pronouns: Languages of Germany The official language of Germany

210-611: The usage of the standard and the local dialects. The flight and expulsion of Germans broke down the isolation of dialect areas. In 1959, 20% of West Germans were expellees or refugees. The colloquial speech is a compromise between Standard German and the dialect. Northern Germany (the Low German area) is characterized by a loss of dialects : standard German is the vernacular, with very few regional features even in informal situations. In Central Germany (the Middle German area) there

225-631: The west and to Waldbröl in the east. The language area also comprises the north of the German-speaking Community of Belgium as well as the southern edge of the Limburg province of the Netherlands , especially Kerkrade ( Kirchroa ), where it is perceived as a variety of Limburgish and legally treated as such. The name derives from the Ripuarian Franks ( Rheinfranken ), who settled in

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