East Central German

== English == === Etymology === Calque of German Ostmitteldeutsch. === Proper noun === East Central German One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-). ==== Usage notes ==== Yiddish is usually included in this group, at least in traditional German dialectology. ==== Meronyms ==== Thuringian Upper Saxon, Upper Saxonian Silesian High Prussian ==== Holonyms ==== Central German ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === East Central German (not comparable) of or pertaining to the East Central German dialects ==== Translations ==== === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of East Central German terms West Central German Thuringian Lusatian