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    Upper Saxon (German: Obersächsisch, pronounced [ˈoːbɐˌzɛksɪʃ]; Upper Saxon: [ɵːb̥oˤˈsɛɡ̊sʃ]) is an East Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern...
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    The Upper Saxon Circle (German: Obersächsischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, created in 1512. The circle was dominated...
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    Present-day Standard German as a High German variant, has actually developed from a compromise of East Central (especially Upper Saxon that was promoted...
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  • West Saxon dialect, one of the four main dialects of Old English Upper Saxon German, an East Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern German State...
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    zebra The flehmen response (/ˈfleɪmən/; from German flehmen, to bare the upper teeth, and Upper Saxon German flemmen, to look spiteful), also called the...
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    varieties of German are conventionally grouped into Upper German, Central German and Low German; Upper and Central German form the High German subgroup....
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    The Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: Siweberjer Såksen or simply Soxen, singularly Sox or Soax; Transylvanian...
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    to be in or near the German North Sea coast where they appear later, in Carolingian times. In Merovingian times, continental Saxons had been associated...
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    Upper German (German: Oberdeutsch [ˈoːbɐdɔʏtʃ] ) is a family of High German dialects spoken primarily in the southern German-speaking area (Sprachraum)...
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  • the light of this caveat. High German Central German (German: Mitteldeutsch) East Central German Thuringian Upper Saxon, including Erzgebirgisch South...
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    Saxony-Anhalt west of the Elbe) as either Low German or Low Saxon, and those spoken in northeastern Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg...
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  • High German, including medieval forms of Upper Saxon German, East Franconian German and Thuringian. The German-speaking inhabitants of Silesia are thought...
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  • German, swg Swabian German, gsw Swiss German, sxu Upper Saxon, wae Walser German, wep Westphalian, wym Wymysorys, yec Yenish, yid Yiddish; see German...
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    Saxon Switzerland (German: Sächsische Schweiz) is a hilly climbing area and national park in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It is located around the Elbe...
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    Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based on Dutch, English, or German. The Germanic...
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    Butterbrot (category German cuisine)
    Low German/Berlinerisch dialect), Botteramm (Colognian dialect, cf. Dutch boterham), Bütterken (Lower Rhine dialect) to Bemme (Upper Saxon German) or...
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    Germany portal Saxony portal Saxony (wine region) States of Germany German: Sachsen [ˈzaksn̩] ; Upper Saxon: Saggsn; Upper Sorbian: Sakska German: Freistaat...
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  • Pennsylvania German (spoken by the Amish and other groups in southeastern Pennsylvania East Central German Thuringian Upper Saxon North Upper Saxon–South Markish...
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    was originally called the Saxon Circle (German: Sächsischer Kreis) before later being better differentiated from the Upper Saxon Circle by the more specific...
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  • with Germany. Some Dutch Low Saxon dialects like Tweants show features of Westphalian, a Low German dialect spoken in adjacent Northern Germany. From...
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  • Vorerzgebirgisch (category Pages with German IPA)
    Vorerzgebirgisch is a variety of Upper Saxon German. It is a transitional dialect between Meißnisch, Vogtländisch and Erzgebirgisch. An example of an urban...
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  • Anglo-Saxons. Saxon may also refer to: Saxon, South Carolina, a census-designated place Saxon, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Saxon, Wisconsin...
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    Saxe-Weimar (category Articles containing German-language text)
    Saxe-Weimar (German: Sachsen-Weimar) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in present-day Thuringia. The chief...
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    (Low German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany (Upper German) by the Speyer line. Central German is spoken...
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  • dialect is a distinct German dialect of the city of Chemnitz and an urban variety of Vorerzgebirgisch, a variant of Upper Saxon German. /m, p/ are bilabial...
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    which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (WASP) upper class." Citing Gallup polling data from 1976, Kit and Frederica...
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    Chemnitz (redirect from Chemnitz, Germany)
    in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the fifth largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin...
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    Upper Saxony (German: Obersachsen) was the name given to the majority of the German lands held by the House of Wettin, in what is now called Central Germany...
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  • Transylvanian Saxon dialect Upper German Upper Saxon German Viennese German Vogtlandian Vorerzgebirgisch Walser German Werdersch West Central German West Low...
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    Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from Romano-British...
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