Thuringian dialect

Thuringian
Thüringisch
Native to	Germany
Region	Thuringia
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German East Central German Thuringian
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old Thuringian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	thur1252
Glottopedia	Thüringisch[1]
Central German dialects after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans   Thuringian (7)

Thuringian is an East Central German dialect group spoken in much of the modern German Free State of Thuringia north of the Rennsteig ridge, southwestern Saxony-Anhalt and adjacent territories of Hesse and Bavaria. It is close to Upper Saxon spoken mainly in the state of Saxony, therefore both are also regarded as one Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect group. Thuringian dialects are among the Central German dialects with the highest number of speakers.