dialect, was felt to be "halfway" between the dialects of the north and south. Luther drew principally on East Central German dialects in his codification efforts.

Later in 1748, a grammar manual by Johann Christoph Gottsched, Grundlegung einer deutschen Sprachkunst, was key in the development of German writing and standardization of the language. Similarly to Luther, Gottsched based his manual on the Central German variant of the Upper Saxon