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ISO 639-3 · sxusxu

unclassified

Upper Saxon

Upper Saxon is a language, spoken in Germany. Wikidata counts about 2 m speakers (1998). Wikidata describes it as “East Middle German dialect”.

6a · VigorousLatn2 m

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: sxu
Glottocode: uppe1465
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 6a Vigorous
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6aEGIDS level

Facts

Name	Upper Saxon
Also called	Upper Saxon German, sxu
All speakers	2,000,000 (1998)
Written in	Latin script

Vitality

EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a

Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.

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Map of the area where Upper Saxon is spoken — Map: Brichtig · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Germany36 languages in the index

Also spoken in Germany

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