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Jackpaulryan (talk | contribs) →Subgroups: One accent being "stronger" than another is confusing. Does "stronger" mean that there are fewer borrowings from the "standard" language? If so, "stronger" is not a good word for this as you could also say that people who speak the "standard" language have a "strong" accent relative to the certain rural Upper Saxon varieties. If "stronger" meant that it has stronger seeming sounds, then the note about the High German consonant shift should cover it. |
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{{Infobox language
| name = Upper Saxon
| nativename = {{lang|sxu|Obersächsisch}}
| states = [[Germany]]
| region = [[Saxony]]
| speakers = 2 million
| date = 1998
| ref = e18
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4 = [[Elbe Germanic]]
| fam5 = [[
| fam6 = [[
| iso3 = sxu
| glotto = uppe1465<!--Glottolog has ISO [sxu] as equivalent to [uppe1400] 'Central East Middle German', the MI language that includes Upper Saxon. However, the scope of [sxu] 'Upper Saxon' in Ethnologue is the Upper Saxon of this article.-->
| glottorefname = Upper Saxon
| notice = IPA
| map = Mitteldeutsche Mundarten.png
| mapcaption = Central German dialects after 1945 and the [[Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)|expulsions of the Germans]]
{{legend|#668000|Upper Saxon (8)}}
| fam7 = [[East Central German]]
}}
'''Upper Saxon''' ({{
[[Standard German]] has been heavily based on Upper Saxon, especially in its lexicon and grammar. This is due to it being used as the basis for early developments in the standardization of German during the early 1500s, including the [[Luther Bible|translation of the Bible]] by [[Martin Luther]].<ref>[https://www.dw.com/de/s%C3%A4chsische-hochsprache/a-4246184 Sächsische Hochsprache], [[Deutsche Welle]]. Retrieved 10 January 2021. (in German)</ref>
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The Upper Saxon varieties ''outside'' the Ore Mountains can be easily recognized by the supposed "softening" ([[lenition]]) of the voiceless stop consonants {{IPA|/p/, /t/}} and {{IPA|/k/}}. Speakers of other dialects hear these as if they were "b", "d" and "g" respectively. In reality, these are merely non-aspirated versions of the same {{IPA|/p/, /t/}} and {{IPA|/k/}}, a widespread feature among Central German dialects, as opposed to strongly aspirated {{IPA|[pʰ]}}, {{IPA|[tʰ]}} and {{IPA|[kʰ]}} in dominant German dialects.
In contrast to neighboring Thuringian, Upper Saxon infinitives end in -en as in Standard German rather than -e
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