Question: Main-Franconian, is a group of Upper German dialects being part of the East Franconian group, Upper German, is a family of which tform of languages, spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area?

Context articles: Southern Bavarian
South Bergish
Main-Franconian dialects
Upper German
East Franconian German
South Franconian German
Palatine German language
Rhine Franconian dialects
East Central German
Franconian languages

Southern Bavarian, or Southern Austro-Bavarian, is a cluster of Upper German dialects of the Bavarian group.
 They are primarily spoken in Tyrol (i.e. the Austrian federal state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol), in Carinthia and in the western parts of Upper Styria.
 Due to the geographic isolation of these Alpine regions, many features of the Old Bavarian language from the Middle High German period have been preserved.
 On the other hand, the Southern Bavarian dialect area is influenced by Slovene, Italian and Ladin minority languages.
South Bergish (German: "Südbergische Dialekte ") or Upper Bergish (German: "Oberbergische Dialekte ") is a group of German dialects of the Bergisches Land Region East of the Rhine and approximately south of the Wupper and north of the Sieg.
 These dialects are part of the Ripuarian group and thus are also called East Ripuarian.
 Ripuarian dialects are also spoken west of the Rhine up to the German border, and in some small areas next to the respective borders in Belgium and in the Netherlands.
 Ripuarian Bergish dialects belong to the Middle German group, and thus are varieties of High German, where they belong to the northmost ones.
 In the North, they border to the East Bergish and the West Bergish aka Low Bergish language groups, which are part of the Low Franconian group like Dutch.
Main-Franconian (German: "Mainfränkisch" ) is group of Upper German dialects being part of the East Franconian group.
 The name is derived from the river Main which meets the river Rhine near Frankfurt after having crossed the former West Germany from East to West.
 The dialect is estimated by Ethnologue as 40% intelligible with Standard German.
Upper German (German: "" ) is a family of High German languages spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area ("Sprachraum").
East Franconian (German: "Ostfränkisch" ), usually referred to as Franconian ("Fränkisch ") in German, is a dialect which is spoken in Franconia, the northern part of the federal state of Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Nuremberg , Bamberg , Coburg , Würzburg , Hof , Bayreuth , Meiningen , Bad Mergentheim , and Crailsheim .
 The major subgroups are "Unterostfränkisch " (spoken in Lower Franconia and southern Thuringia), "Oberostfränkisch " (spoken in Upper and Middle Franconia) and "Südostfränkisch " (spoken in some parts of Middle Franconia and Hohenlohe ).
South Franconian (German: "Südfränkisch" ) is a High Franconian dialect which is spoken in the northernmost part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, around Karlsruhe, Mosbach and Heilbronn.
 Like closely related East Franconian it is a transitional dialect, which unites elements of Central German and Upper German.
Palatine German or Pfaelzisch ("Pälzisch"; German: "Pfälzisch" ) is a West Franconian dialect of German which is spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley roughly in an area between the cities of Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to the Alsace region in France but also beyond.
 Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch is descended primarily from the Palatine German dialects spoken by Germans who immigrated to North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and who chose to maintain their native language.
 Danube Swabians in Croatia and Serbia also use many elements of it.
 Normally, one distinguishes the Pfälzisch spoken in the western part of the Palatinate (Westpfälzisch) and the Pfälzisch spoken in the eastern part of the Palatinate (Vorderpfälzisch).
 Some examples of the differences between High German and Pfälzisch are:
Rhine Franconian (German:    ), or Rhenish Franconian, is a dialect family of West Central German.
 It comprises the German dialects spoken across the western regions of the states of Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, northwest Baden-Wurttemberg, and Hesse in Germany.
 It is also spoken in northeast France, in the eastern part of the département of Moselle in the Lorraine region, and in the north-west part of Bas-Rhin in Alsace.
 To the north, it is bounded by the Sankt Goar line (“"das/dat" line”) which separates it from Moselle Franconian; to the south, it is bounded by the Main line which is also referred to as the "Speyer line" which separates it from the Upper German dialects.
East Central German (German: "Ostmitteldeutsche Dialekte" ) is the eastern, non-Franconian sub-group of Central German dialects, themselves part of High German.
 Present-day Standard German as a High German variant has actually developed from a compromise of East Central (especially Upper Saxon promoted by Johann Christoph Gottsched) and East Franconian German.
 East Central German dialects are mainly spoken in Central Germany and parts of Brandenburg, and were formerly also spoken in Silesia and Bohemia.
Franconian (German: "Fränkisch" ; Dutch: "Frankisch" ) includes a number of West Germanic languages and dialects possibly derived from the languages and dialects originally spoken by the Franks from their ethnogenesis in the 3rd century AD.
 The languages that evolved in the northern and eastern lands of Francia included Low Franconian, of which present-day Dutch is the primary member, the West Central German Rhine Franconian and Central Franconian dialects (including Luxembourgish), as well as transitional High Franconian German dialects.
 Linguists have different views about whether these languages and dialects have descended from a single Franconian proto-language, also known as Istvaeonic.