Native to Germany | Glottolog None | |
Region Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg Language family Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
Central German
East Central German
North Upper Saxon | ||
North Upper Saxon (German: Nordobersächsisch ) is a Central German dialect spoken in Eastern Germany. It borders to Upper Saxon German, Lausitzisch-neumärkisch dialects, Thuringian dialect and Brandenburgisch.
It is spoken in an area around Leipzig, where Low German used to be spoken. It can be divided into Osterlandic, mansfeldische Dialektfläche, fuhnische Dialektfläche and dübener Dialektfläche.
References
North Upper Saxon Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA