>From Aida: I am highlighting some paragraphs of interest to us from the article submitted by Mr. Krupnak which highlights our Bohemian-German dialects spoken in Western Bohemia: Iink: http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/reworking-of-german-language-classification-part-3-high-german/ *Oberpfälz North Bavarian<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janblotz/arnoldresearch3.htm> * (Oberpfälzerisch or Oberpfälzisch) is a language spoken in southeastern Germany in central eastern and northeastern Bavaria from Regensburg, Kelheim and the Bavarian Forest north along the Naab River to the Fichtelgebirge (Fir Mountains) and in the Northern Bohemian Forest along the border with Czechoslovakia. It is also spoken up by Neumarkt. According to residents (Kirmaier 2009), this is a separate language, not intelligible with other German Bavarian lects. Dialects of this language include *Danube Oberpfälzisch *, which, though different, is fully intelligible with the Oberpfälzisch spoken in Neumarkt. This is the Oberpfälzisch spoken along the Danube around the towns of Kelheim and Regensburg. *Bohemian German*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_in_the_Czech_Republic>(Boehmerwaelderischish<http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN/2007-05/1178379647>) is a High German language spoken in Czechoslovakia, Germany and the US. It looks like both<http://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&pg=PA598&lpg=PA598&dq=%22bohemian+german%22+dialect&source=bl&ots=4nnlM3ZukV&sig=yBfEQB1ndQSgikiFgVpWCo8C7_E&hl=en&ei=5mK-SYfdFJmQsQP5uPBD&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA597,M1>North and Central Bavarian. *Egerland Bohemian German*<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gbhs/newsletter/Heimatbrief_March_2000.pdf>(Egerlaenderisch) is spoken in Bischofteinitz, Mies, Tachau and Taus Counties in the Czech Republic in Western Bohemia and in and around New Ulm, Minnesota, where there are still speakers ranging from 52-98 years old. In the Czech Republic, each village had a separate dialect, but all dialects are intelligible. This appears to be a separate language<http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/GERMAN-BOHEMIAN/2006-05/1147996153>from Oberpfalz Northern Bavarian. This seems to be the same language as * Sechsämterland * spoken across the border. The Sechsämterland dialect is spoken in the area around Selb, Wunsiedel, Hohenberg and Thierstein in the far northeast of Bavaria near the border with Czechoslovakia and Lower Saxony. Dialectal diversity is very high in this area, and every village has its own dialect. *Lauterbach* is a divergent dialect spoken east of Tirschenreuth on the Czech border. *Tiss* is a divergent<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gbhs/newsletter/Heimatbrief_March_2003.pdf>subdialect of Egerland. *Sangerberg* is a divergent Egerlaenderisch dialect spoken in Prameny, Czechoslovakia. *Cheb (note from Aida: I never heard of a dialect named "Cheb", as "Cheb" is the Czech translation for the city of Eger!) * is spoken in the large German city of the same name. *Tachauer* is a dialect that formed the basis<http://www.members.shaw.ca/brianmerz/Genealogy/folklore.htm>for the * Machliniec* dialect spoken formerly spoken by the Carpathian Germans in their language island in the Machliniec area of the Ukraine. They left during WW2. *German Central Bavarian* is a group of Bavarian lects that are spoken in Germany. This group includes Lower Bavarian, Upper Bavarian and *Lechrain Bavarian* (Lechrainisch). Lechrain Bavarian is spoken in Western Bavaria and is transitional to Swabian. Map of the Lechrain region<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lechrain.svg>. Lechrain is very different<http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BAVARIAN-ANCESTORS/2001-10/1003966871>from the rest of Bavarian, but intelligibility data is lacking. Lower Bavarian includes the Bohemian Forest language and many dialects. Upper Bavarian includes the Starnberg, Highland and Meisbach languages and many dialects.