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The regiolect:
Region: Ruhr area, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Native speakers: unknown
Language family: Indo European (Germanic)

Ruhr German or Ruhrpottisch (name varies depending on the region) is spoken by the people in the Ruhr area. Most linguists classify it as a regiolect and a transitional language. It is a high German variety that emerged at the end of the 19th century. It shows influences of the Dutch language, the old Lower Franconian dialects on the Lower Rhine and the Low German dialects in Westphalia. These influences affect sentence structure, vocabulary and sound. In addition, there were minor influences from the Slavic-speaking migrant workers from Upper Silesia, Masuria, Poland and Slovenia as well as from the Rotwelschen. Individual adoptions from the neighboring Ripuarian and Limburgish languages including the Dutch language are also anchored in it.

The Ruhr area has 5.1 million inhabitants but I couldn't find how many speakers the regiolect has. However, not all 5.1 million of them speak it, since we also have a lot of immigrants.

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