East Central German

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East Central German
East Middle German (German: Ostmitteldeutsch)
Geographic distribution	Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin, Brandenburg, Silesia
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Central German East Central German
Subdivisions	Thuringian Upper Saxon Erzgebirgisch Lusatian Silesian High Prussian Wymysorys (separate language) Alzenau
Glottolog	east2832  (East Middle German) uppe1400  (Central East Middle German)
German dialects after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans from their eastern homelands   Thuringian (17)   North Upper Saxon (18)   South Märkisch (19)   Upper Saxon (20)

East Central German or East Middle German (German: Ostmitteldeutsch) is the eastern Central German language and is part of High German. Present-day Standard German as a High German variant,^[1] has actually developed from a compromise of East Central (especially Upper Saxon that was 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.