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East Central German
Ostmitteldeutsch
Geographic distribution	Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin, Brandenburg
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German East Central German
Subdivisions	Thuringian Upper Saxon Erzgebirgisch Lusatian Silesian High Prussian
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 or East Middle 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 Middle 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 (Schlesisch) (nearly extinct)
  - Old Zipser (Altzipserisch)
- Wymysorys
Yiddish
- Eastern Yiddish
- Western Yiddish

Another division is:

Ostmitteldeutsch (East Central German)
- Thüringisch (Thuringian)
  - Zentralthüringisch (Central Thuringian)
    - Westthüringisch (West Thuringian)
    - Ostthüringisch (East Thuringian)
  - Nordthüringisch (North Thuringian)
    - Honsteinisch
    - Sonderhäusisch
    - Eichsfeldisch
    - Südmansfeldisch
- Obersächsisch (Upper Saxon)
  - Erzgebirgisch
    - Westerzgebirgisch
    - Osterzgebirgisch
    - Vorerzgebirgisch
    - Südmeißnisch
  - Meißnisch
    - Südostmeißnisch
    - Westmeißnisch
    - Nordmeißnisch
    - Nordostmeißnisch
  - Nordobersächsisch (North Upper Saxon)
    - Osterländisch
    - Nordmansfeldisch
    - Fuhnisch
    - Dübenisch
- Lausitzisch-Märkisch or Lausitzisch-Neumärkisch
  - Lausitzisch (Lusatian)
    - Oberlausitzisch (Upper Lusatian)
    - Neulausitzisch (New Lusatian)
    - Westlausitzisch (West Lusatian)
    - Ostlausitzisch (East Lusatian)
    - Niederlausitzisch (Lower Lusatian)
  - Südmärkisch
  - Neumärkisch
- Schlesisch (Silesian)
  - Gebirgsschlesisch (Mountain Silesian)
    - Löwenbergisch
    - Schweidnitzisch
    - Glatzisch
  - Südostschlesisch (South-East Silesian)
    - Oelsisch
    - Briegisch
    - Strehlisch
  - Mittelschlesisch (Middle or Central Silesian)
  - Westschlesisch (West Silesian)
  - Neiderländisch
- Böhmisch (Bohemian)
  - Ostegerländisch
  - Nordwestböhmisch (North-West Bohemian)
  - Nordböhmisch (North Bohemian)
  - Nordostböhmisch (North-East Bohemian)
- Nordmährisch
  - Oppaländisch
  - Kuhländisch
  - Zentralnordmährisch
- Hochpreußisch (High Prussian)
  - Breslauisch
  - Oberländisch
    - Nordoberländisch
    - Rosenbergisch

References

~~"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.
Wolfgang Putschke:
- - Ostmitteldeutsch. In: Lexikon der Germanistischen Linguistik. Herausgegeben von Hans Peter Althaus, Helmut Henne, Herbert Ernst Wiegand. 2nd ed., Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 1980 (1st ed. 1973), here p. 474–477
  - Ostmitteldeutsche Dialektologie. In: Ludwig Erich Schmitt (ed.): Germanische Dialektologie. Festschrift für Walther Mitzka zum 80. Geburtstag. I. (Zeitschrift für Mundartforschung. Beihefte, Neue Folge 5.) Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden 1968, p. 105–154, here p. 132 and 143

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