East Central German

East Central German (German: Ostmitteldeutsche Dialekte) is the eastern, non-Franconian Central German language, part of High German. Present-day Standard German as a High German variant[3] 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.

East Central German
Ostmitteldeutsch
Geographic
distribution		Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin, Brandenburg
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Glottologeast2832  (East Middle German)[1]
uppe1400  (Central East Middle German)[2]
Central German dialects
  Thuringian (7)
  Upper Saxon (8)
  Erzgebirgisch (9)
  Lusatian (10)
  South Markish (11)

Dialects

East Central German is spoken in large parts of what is today known as the cultural area of Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland). It comprises:[1]

gollark: Some physicist.
gollark: I don't think that's how de Broglie waves work. The wavelengths of those are too ridiculously tiny to be significant outside of quantum mechanics.
gollark: I must note that the "17gb of info" was mostly random unexplained PDFs and images.
gollark: Okay?
gollark: I assume he just has pings muted at this point.

See also

Further reading
  • Keller, R. E. (1960) German Dialects: phonology and morphology. Manchester University Press.

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Middle German". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central East Middle German". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Ethnologue: East Middle German". Retrieved 2010-11-24.
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