Erzgebirgisch Classification Question

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "John Cowan" <cowan at ccil.org>
> To: "Ciarán ? Duibh n" <ciaran at oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk>
> Cc: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Erzgebirgisch Classification Question
...
> Not necessarily: there are a number of ISO 639-3 languages that are said
> to be Franconian (unfortunately the term seems to cover the whole course
> of the Rhine from Upper German to Dutch varieties).
...

Part of the difficulty here is that "Franconian" often has more to do with
geographic location (approximate boundaries of a long-gone empire) than
it does with any particular linguistic relationship.

Randy