High Franconian or Upper Franconian (German: Oberfränkisch) is a part of High German consisting of East Franconian and South Franconian.^[1] It is spoken southeast of the Rhine Franconian area. It is spoken in Germany around Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Heilbronn, Meiningen and Würzburg and a small area in France. It is disputed whether it makes sense to summarise East and South Franconian because both are different.^{[citation needed]}

High Franconian
Oberfränkisch
Geographic distribution	Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Saxony
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Elbe Germanic High German Upper German High Franconian
Subdivisions	East Franconian South Franconian
Glottolog	uppe1464  (Upper Franconian)
Upper German dialects after 1945, with High Franconian in red and purple   1: East Franconian   2: South Franconian

High Franconian is transitional between Upper German and Central German but usually regarded as Upper German, with similarity to Yiddish.^{[citation needed]}