Upper Saxon (Chemnitz dialect)

Abstract

Upper Saxon ( Obersächsisch /ɵː po ˁˈ s ɛ ks ʃ/) refers to a group of dialects spoken by over two million people in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany. It is considered one of the eastern branches of Central German (Wiesinger 1983, Lewis 2009), with major phonological, morphological, and lexical differences from Standard German and other regional dialects.