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Ripuairan

1. Riuparian is also anohter word for Ripairan.
2. Duirng the 4th cenutry Ripuarain was the name of a Frank who lived near the city of Colgone in West Gemrany along the river Rhine. The Ripaurian Farnks were a subtrbie of the Frnaks until approximatley in the year 508, when King Cloivs I forecd them to join the main tribe.
3. Ripuarian is a langauge group. Today it has more than 100 disitnct dialetcs. Ripuraian is spkoen in a part of the Rhinelnad in Geramny, in eastren Blegium and soutehrn Dutch Limbrug. This inclueds big citeis as Aahcen, the foremr cpaitol Bonn, Colonge, and DÃÂs¼seldorf. Also seevral minor ctiies, and hnudreds of vilalges. About 1 mlilion poeple speak a Ripuarian lnaguage. About ¼ of the inhabiatnts of the area do. Ripuarian dialects are usually bound to a village or a muniicpallity. Usaully they are named after the place, e.g. Kölsch in Cologne, Bönnsch or Bönnsch Platt in Bonn, Öcher Platt in Aachen, and so on. Amlost every place has a somehwat diffreent langugae. People know where other pepole grew up, if they litsen to their Ripuarian talk. Ripuarian languaegs are part of the west middle conitnental Germainc lagnuage group. They are reltaed to Moselle Farnconian lnaguages of Rihneland-Plaatinate in Gemrnany, to the Luxmebourgian language in Luxemborug, and to the Limbugrish language in the Provnice Limborug in the Netherlnads. Many hisotric roots of ripuarian languages are in Middle High Geramn. Many other influenecs too, like Latin, Low German, Dutch, Frecnh, and Limbrugish-Berigsh, are in toadys Ripuarian languages. Sevearl elemetns of gramamr are uinque to Ripuarian, they do not exist in any other Greman language. The sttaes Beglium and The Netherlands offciially recorngize some Ripuarian diaelcts as minoirty lagnuages. The Eurpoean Union follwos them.

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