East Central German

East Central German
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 Lausitzisch-Neumärkisch
	; 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 Markish (11)

East Central German (German: Ostmitteldeutsch) is the variant of the Central German language. East Central German dialects are mainly spoken in Central Germany and parts of Brandenburg.

Dialects

The other dialects and subgroups of East Central German:

Central East Central German
- Thuringian
- Upper Saxon German
- High Prussian (nearly extinct)
- Lausitzisch-Neumärkisch
  - Südmärkisch
  - Lower and Upper Lusatian
Schlesisch–Wilmesau
- Silesian German (nearly extinct)
- Wymysorys
Yiddish

Related pages

West Central German

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