Northern Bavarian

Northern Bavarian
Nordbairisch
Native to	Germany
Region	Upper Palatinate, Upper Franconia, Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Irminonic High German Upper German Bavarian Northern Bavarian
Writing system	Latin (German alphabet), historically the Gothic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nort2634
Areas of Northern Bavarian
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Northern Bavarian or North Central Bavarian (German: Nordbairisch, Nordmittelbairisch) is a dialect of the Bavarian language. Though mostly spoken in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Northern Bavarian is also spoken in Upper, Lower Bavaria and Upper Franconia. There is one subvariant called West Northern Bavarian or West Northern Central Bavarian. It is spoken in the west, up in the north of Bavaria. The dialects of the Upper Palatinate and the Bavarian Forest are also called “Waidlerische”. Linguistically, these are North Bavarian, North Central Bavarian and Central Bavarian dialects, with the North Bavarian elements gradually increasing towards the north.