Colognian or
Kölsch is a small set of very closely related
dialects, or variants, of the
Ripuarian 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 the North-West of
Germany. Kölsch is one of the very few city dialects in Germany, besides for example the
dialect spoken in
Berlin.