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Frankfurt Poetry Lectures
Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake Main (river), Main, it forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach am Main; Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, its urban area has a population of over 2.7 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's Metropolitan regions in Germany, second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Rhine-Ruhr region and the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, fourth largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union (EU). Frankfurt is one of the ''de facto'' four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hessian Dialects
Hessian () is a West Central German group of dialects of the German language in the central German state of Hesse. The dialect most similar to Hessian is Palatine German language, Palatinate German () of the Rhine Franconian sub-family. However, the Hessian dialects have some features which set them somewhat apart from other West-Central German dialects. Dialects Hessian can be divided into four main dialects: * North Hessian (, around the city of Kassel), * Central Hessian (, including the Marburg and Gießen areas), * East Hessian (, around Fulda), * South Hessian (, around Darmstadt). To understand this division, one must consider the history of Hesse and the fact that this state is the result of an administrative reform. ''s'' regularly occurred in the pronouns and , unlike in Central Franconian languages, Central Franconian to the west, which has and . *West Germanic initial ''p'' and medial/final ''pp'' have remained plosives ( 'pound', 'apple'), contrasting to the east w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
