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East Central German
Native to	Germany
Region	Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin, Brandenburg
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German East Central German
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Central German dialects Thuringian (7) Upper Saxon (8) Erzgebirgisch (9) Lusatian (10) Berlin Brandenburgish (11)

East Central German 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 is spoken in large parts of what is today known as the cultural area of Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland). It comprises:

and further: