of the Ulfilas Bible) Vandalic Burgundian Northwest Germanic (dialect continuum) West Germanic (dialect continuum) Elbe Germanic (Herminionic / Irminonic / Suebic / Alamanic) Langobardic / Lombardic (extinct) Suebian / Allemanian (extinct) (Suebian languages are thought to be a main source of the later High German languages) High German languages (characterized by the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum) Old High German Middle High German Early New High German New High German (Modern High German Varieties) Central German / Middle German (Mitteldeutsch) (transitional between High and Low German but closer to the first) East Central German (Ostmitteldeutsch) (main basis of Modern Standard High German but also with East Franconian influences) Central East Central German Thuringian-Upper Saxon Thuringian (Thüringisch) Central Thuringian (spoken around the Thuringian capital Erfurt, Gotha, and Ilmenau) Northern Thuringian (around Mühlhausen and Nordhausen) Eichsfeld dialect Northeastern Thuringian (spoken around Artern as well as in the adjacent areas of Querfurt, Halle, and Merseburg of Saxony-Anhalt) Mansfeld dialect Ilm Thuringian (around Rudolstadt, Jena, and Weimar) Eastern Thuringian (spoken around Eisenberg and Altenburg as well as in the adjacent area of Naumburg, Weissenfels, and Zeitz in Saxony-Anhalt) Southeastern Thuringian (around Schleiz, Greiz, Saalfeld, and Gera, as well as around Ludwigsstadt in neighboring Bavaria) Western Thuringian Upper Saxon (Obersächsisch) (in fact it is East Thuringian – Ostthüringisch, and not truly Saxon, a North Sea Germanic descendant, what is called Upper Saxon is an Elbe Germanic descendant, and close to Thuringian) (roughly spoken on the Middle Elbe river basin) North Upper Saxon (includes Leipzig) Meissen dialect Erzgebirgisch Northern Bohemian German (Nordböhmisch) (nearly extinct) (it was spoken by part of the German Bohemians – Deutschböhmen, part of the "Sudeten Germans", a catch-all word for Ethnic Germans that lived in Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia, western Czechoslovakia) Iglauisch (it was spoken in Iglau region, modern Jihlava, a former german language island in the border between Bohemia and Moravia) Schönhengstler (it was spoken in a region of far northeast Bohemia and far northwest Moravia, a former german language island in the border between Bohemia and Moravia) Lusatian German (Lausitzisch) Low Lusatian German (spoken in Lower Lusatia and northern Upper Lusatia) (not to be confused with Lower Sorbian, which is a West Slavic language) (Lower Sorbian substrate) Western Lusatian German (spoken in Western Upper Lusatia) (Sorbian languages substrate) Eastern Lusatian German (spoken in Eastern Upper Lusatia) (Sorbian languages substrate) Upper Lusatian German (spoken in southern Upper Lusatia; with