What is Northern Bavarian?
{{Infobox language | name = Northern Bavarian | fam6 = [[Upper German]] | glottorefname = North Bavarian | glotto = nort2634 | isoexception = dialect | mapcaption = Areas of Northern Bavarian ---- | map = Map of Northern Bavarian.svg | script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[German alphabet]]),<br />historically the [[Blackletter|Gothic script]] | fam7 = [[Bavarian language|Bavarian]] | fam5 = [[High German languages|High German]] | nativename = Nordbairisch | fam4 = [[Elbe Germanic|Irminonic]] | fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] | fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] | familycolor = Indo-European | speakers = ? | region = [[Upper Palatinate]], [[Upper Franconia]], [[Upper Bavaria]], [[Lower Bavaria]] | states = [[Germany]] | notice = IPA }} '''Northern Bavarian''' or '''North Central Bavarian''' ([[German language|German]]: ''Nordbairisch'', ''Nordmittelbairisch'') is a dialect of the [[Bavarian language]]. Though mostly spoken in [[Weiden in der Oberpfalz]], Northern Bavarian is also spoken in [[Upper Bavaria Government Region|Upper]], [[Lower Bavaria Government Region|Lower Bavaria]] and [[Upper Franconia Government Region|Upper Franconia]]. There is one subvariant called '''West Northern Bavarian''' or '''West Northern Central Bavarian'''. It is spoken in the west, up in the north of [[Bavaria]]. The dialects of the Upper Palatinate and the Bavarian Forest are also called “''Waidlerische''”. Linguistically, these are North Bavarian, North Central Bavarian and Central Bavarian dialects, with the North Bavarian elements gradually increasing towards the north. == Spoken regions == Northern Bavarian is spoken in most of the [[Upper Palatinate Government Region|Upper Palatinate]], in the southeastern parts of [[Upper Franconia Government Region|Upper Franconia]] and [[Middle Franconia]], in the northernmost part of [[Upper Bavaria]] and in the southernmost part of [[Saxony]] (Southern Vogtland). In the south-eastern Upper Palatinate and in the northernmost part of [[Lower Bavaria Government Region|Lo