Austro-Bavarian language
major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area Bavaria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bavarian (also known as Austro-Bavarian; German: Bairisch [ˈbaɪ̯ʁɪʃ] (listen)) is a major group of Upper German varieties. They are called "upper" because they are spoken in Switzerland, Austria and southern Germany, which are mountainous. Like standard German, Austro-Bavarian is a High German language, but they are not the same language. However, Austro-Bavarian and Standard German have influenced each other and the vast majority of Austro-Bavarian speakers speak Standard German as well. There are more variants of Bavarian. The variants are Central Bavarian, Southern Bavarian, and Northern Bavarian.
Austro-Bavarian | |
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Bairisch | |
Pronunciation | German [baɪʁɪʃ] |
Region | Austria, Bavaria, and South Tyrol |
Ethnicity | Austrians Bavarians South Tyroleans |
Native speakers | 14,000,000 (2016)[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bar |
Glottolog | baye1239 Bairischbava1246 Bavarian |
Extent of the Austro-Bavarian language | |
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Austro-Bavarian is also used to refer to the dialect group which includes the Austro-Bavarian dialect discussed here, as well as the Cimbrian, Hutterite German, and Mócheno dialects of Germany.