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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Europe > Germany > Saxon, Upper

Saxon, Upper

A language of Germany

ISO 639-3sxu

Population  2,000,000 (1998 A. Thomsen).
Region  East, southeast, Sachsen with Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Halle in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Dialects  Erzgebirgisch, Hessian (Hessisch).
Classification  Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
Language use  Also use Standard German.
Language development  Bible portions: 1996.
Comments  Spoken by ‘several millions’.