Kölsch
Facts
- Language: Kölsch
- Alternate names: Colognian
- Language code: ksh
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Middle German, West Middle German, Middle Franconian, Ripuarian
- Number of speakers: 250000
- Script: Latin script.
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Introduction
Kölsch is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian group of dialects of the Central German group of languages. These dialects are spoken in the area covered by the Archdiocese and former Electorate of Cologne reaching from Neuss in the north to just south of Bonn, west to Düren and east to Olpe in northwest Germany.
The Kölsch Verb
| Person | Indicative Present | |
|---|---|---|
| Sg.1 | ich | spille |
| Sg.2 | do | spills |
| Sg.3 | hä; se; et | spillt |
| Pl.1 | mer | spille |
| Pl.2 | ehr | spillt |
| Pl.3 | se | spille |
| Person | Indicative Preterite | |
| Sg.1 | ich | spillte |
| Sg.2 | do | spilltes |
| Sg.3 | hä; se; et | spillte |
| Pl.1 | mer | spillte |
| Pl.2 | ehr | spilltet |
| Pl.3 | se | spillte |