# East Central German

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-).

## Etymology
Calque of German Ostmitteldeutsch.

## Source
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