Colonial dialects are those Germanic dialects, which resulted from balancing processes of different westGermanic and/or southGermanic languages into language areas, which were before not (purely) germanischsprachig (but slawischsprachig or baltischsprachig). Such dialects are e.g. the Central German dialects Thuringian Meissnerisch (falsely also upperSaxonian or cure-Saxonian called), Schlesisch, in addition, different dialects (down) of the Saxonian language Niederdeut (flat German), like Ostholsteinisch, Mecklenburgian, Pommersch, Niederpreussisch. Also Berlini is to be counted in addition which by a change from a down-German (of Lower Saxony) dialect to (high) a German dialect, which developed on Central German (thus probably Thuringian meissnerischerer and schlesischer) basis.