East Lusatian dialect

Eastern Lusatian
Spoken in	Saxony around Görlitz and neighboring regions
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Standard German Middle German East Central German Lausitz - Silesian Eastern Lusatian

Map of dialect areas Upper Lusatia (the Silesian- Lusatian dialect is referred to as Ostlausitzisch )

The East Lusatian dialect is an East Central German dialect that is mainly spoken in the east of the Saxon Upper Lusatia . He belongs to the group of the Lausitz Silesian dialects.

history

Until 1945 the East Lusatian region swung across the historic border on the Queis between the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia and the Duchy of Silesia as far as Bunzlau . The Middle Silesian dialect is only used from Liegnitz onwards .

Well-known East Lusatian dialect poet

• Emil Barber (1857–1917; representative of the East Lusatian dialect)
• Fritz Bertram (1871–1961; from Lauban )
• Kurt Junge (1910–1996) from Görlitz

Dialects

• Görlitz dialect
• Lauban dialect