Indo-European · ISO 639-3 sxu
Upper Saxon Language Obersächsisch
Upper Saxon is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Upper Saxon is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Upper Saxon
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Middle German
- East Middle German
- Upper Saxon
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Upper Saxon language
Upper Saxon (Obersächsisch) is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 314th most spoken language in the world — just behind Shahmirzadi (2.0 million) and ahead of Tulu (2.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the East Middle German group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Upper Saxon spoken?
Upper Saxon is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Germany (2.0 million).
Upper Saxon is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Upper Saxon is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Eastern Yiddish, Hunsrik, Limburgan, Pfaelzisch, Luxembourgish, German and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sxu.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.