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Palatine German or Pfaelzisch (Pälzisch; {{lang-de|Pfälzisch}}) is a West Franconian dialect of German which is spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley roughly in an area between the cities of Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to the Alsace region in France but also beyond. Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch is descended primarily from the Palatine German dialects spoken by Germans who immigrated to North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and who chose to maintain their native language. Danube Swabians in Croatia and Serbia also use many elements of it. Normally, one distinguishes the Pfälzisch spoken in the western part of the Palatinate (Westpfälzisch) and the Pfälzisch spoken in the eastern part of the Palatinate (Vorderpfälzisch). The English term Palatine refers to the Palatinate region where these dialects are spoken.

Some examples of the differences between High German and Pfälzisch are:

A few examples of sentence pronunciation in Vorderpfälzisch would be:

In Westpfälzisch:

In standard German, the sentence would read as such:

The English translation would be,

In standard German, the sentence would read as such:

The English translation would be,

Pronunciation and grammar vary from region to region (even from town to town). Palatine Germans often can tell the part of the Palatinate or even the village where other speakers are from.

Grammatically, all Palatine dialects share the features that the genitive is not used (replaced with uses of the dative, with or without von) and that most verbs do not have an imperfect past tense, only the perfect.

See also

• Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

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