Editing Cologne (section)

===Language===
{{See also|Colognian dialect}}
'''Colognian''' or '''Kölsch''' ({{IPA|ksh|kœɫːʃ}}) (natively ''Kölsch Platt'') is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the [[Ripuarian language|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, Germany|Olpe]] in the North-West of Germany. Kölsch is one of the very few city dialects in Germany, which also include the [[Berlinerisch dialect|dialect]] spoken in [[Berlin]], for example.