Rheinmaasländisch

Etymology

 * coined by Arend Mihm in 1992.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Low Franconian dialects in the area between Maas, Rhine and Romance languages, with borders to Brabantian (in the West and North-West), Westphalian (in the North-East and East), Ripuarian (in the South-West) and Romance (South-West). Chiefly in reference to the Low Franconian written language of that region which was used until ca. 1550.