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| East Central German | |
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| Ostmitteldeutsch | |
| Geographic distribution | Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin, Brandenburg |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | east2832 (East Middle German)uppe1400 (Central East Middle German) |
 Central German dialects after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans from their eastern homelands
Thuringian (7)
Upper Saxon (8)
Erzgebirgisch (9)
Lusatian (10)
South Marchian with Berlinian (11) | |
East Central German (Template:Lang-de) is the eastern, non-Franconian Central German language, 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.
Dialects
East Central German is spoken in large parts of what is today known as the cultural area of Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland). It comprises according to Glottolog:
- Central East Central German
- High Prussian (Hochpreußisch) (nearly extinct)
- Thuringian (Thüringisch)
- Upper Saxon (Obersächsisch)
- Anhaltisch
- Meißnisch
- Osterländisch
- Westlausitzisch
- Erzgebirgisch
- Nordobersäschisch-Südmärkisch
- North Upper Saxon (Nordobersächsisch)
- South Marchian (Südmärkisch)
- Schlesisch–Wilmesau
- Silesian German (Schlesisch) (nearly extinct)
- Old Zipser (Altzipserisch)
- Wymysorys
- Silesian German (Schlesisch) (nearly extinct)
- Yiddish
See also
References
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"Ethnologue: East Middle German". Retrieved 2010-11-24.
"Ethnologue: East Middle German". Retrieved 2021-09-27. - Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "East Middle German". Glottolog 4.3.