section_path: Dialects/High German/Central German/East Central German
section_name: East Central German
paragraph_text: East Central German
  
  Further east, the non- Franconian, East Central German dialects are spoken (Thuringian, Upper Saxon, Erzgebirgisch (dialect of the Ore Mountains) and North Upper Saxon–South Markish, and earlier, in the then German-speaking parts of Silesia also Silesian, and in then German southern East Prussia also High Prussian).