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{{Short description|Northern Low German dialect of Germany}}
{{no footnotes|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Marchian
|altname=Brandenburgian, Brandenburgish<br /> ''German:'' {{lang|de|Brandenburgisch}}, {{lang|de|Märkisch-Brandenburgisch}}
|states      = [[Germany]]
|region      = [[Brandenburg]], [[Saxony-Anhalt]]
|speakers=?
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=[[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3=[[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
|fam4=[[North Sea Germanic|Ingvaeonic]]
|fam5=[[Low German]]
|fam6=[[East Low German]]
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=bran1235
|glottorefname=Märkisch
|map=German dialect continuum in 1900 (according to Wiesinger & König).png
|mapcaption=Germanic Dialects in 1900 in Germany as of today's borders
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{{Legend|blue|(8): Marchian (Brandenburgish)}}
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The '''Marchian dialects'''{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} (named after the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|March of Brandenburg]]; also called '''Brandenburgian'''<ref>e.g. Michael [G.] Clyne: ''The German language in a changing Europe.'' 1995, p. XV</ref> or '''Brandenburgish'''; German: ''Brandenburgisch'') are [[dialect]]s of [[Low German]], more precisely [[East Low German]], spoken in [[Germany]] in the northern and western parts of [[Brandenburg]] ([[Uckermark]], [[Prignitz]] and [[Mittelmark]] regions) as well as in northern [[Saxony-Anhalt]] ([[Altmark]]).
The language area can be further divided into North-Markish ([[Stendal]], [[Wittenberge]], [[Prenzlau]]) and Middle-Markish ([[Brandenburg an der Havel]]).
The modern South-Markish (also called South Brandenburgian) dialects of southern Brandenburg and Berlin, however, are not Low German but Central German dialects. With the development of the Berlin metropolitan area, the original Low German Brandenburgish of Berlin developed into [[Berlinerisch]], the local High German dialects, which today are considered an East Central German subgroup. The spread of High German into the Brandenburgish language area is an ongoing process.
==References==
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[[Category:Low German]]
[[Category:German dialects]]
[[Category:Brandenburg]]
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