Southeast Thuringian
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| Official language in | in the area of the  former Reussian states and the southern part of the  former Weimar-Orlamünde county
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Southeast Thuringian is a Thuringian dialect that can be assigned to Central German , which is mainly used in the Saale-Orla district , in the Greiz district , in the southern Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district , in and around the city of Gera , in the south of the Saale-Holzland district and in the far north of the District of Kronach is spoken. It is a transitional dialect between the Thuringian dialects spoken in the north and the East Franconian dialects of southern Thuringia , Vogtland and northern Bavaria. In the south of the dialect area East Franconian language features (e.g. use of fei and net ) occur more frequently, in the south-west Main Franconian vocabulary is increasingly used. Sorbs Fränkisch , Saale Franconian and Elster Fränkisch are historical names for this dialect.
Some basic characteristics that make the dialect such. B. from adjacent Ilmthüringischen differ, the coincidence of are ch [ ç ] and sch [ ʃ ] (d. E. Is said nisch instead Not ), the use of diminutive -le and -l ( bissl instead of bit ) as well as the speech melody, which is similar to the Osterländischen and Meißenischen . Compared to the rest of the Central German-speaking area, the light vowels are pronounced very clearly, with closed e-sounds getting a slight tint to the i (somewhat exaggerated: "Dos geht fei net!"), Which ends in an i-final diphthong at the southern edge of the dialect area .
In the north, the dialect resembles East Thuringian , in the south on the borders with Bavaria and Saxony, due to the East Franconian features already mentioned and the similar vocabulary, it is more like Vogtland . In the west of the language area there is also interference with Ilmthuringian, e.g. B. a mixed dialect of Ilmthuringian and southeast Thuringian is spoken in Kahla .
The dialect area corresponds to the historical Russian countries and the southern part of the county of Weimar-Orlamünde .