Moravian German dialects

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Moravian German dialects
Deutschmährische Mundarten
Native to	Czech Republic, Slovakia
Region	Moravia and Czech Silesia
Language family	Germanic languages West Germanic German Moravian German dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Map of Moravia and Czech Silesia (borders between the two regions not shown) indicating the major dialect groups:[image reference needed]   Central Moravian dialects   Eastern Moravian dialects   Lach dialects   Bohemian-Moravian dialects   Cieszyn Silesian speaking area   Areas of Moravian German dialects

Moravian German dialects were moribund dialects of German spoken in Moravia in what is now the Czech Republic. Speakers of the dialect were largely expelled after 1945. Those who could stay had to assimilate and mostly did not pass the language to their children.