Bavarian

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A language of Austria

ISO 639-3
bar
Alternate Names
Bairisch, Bavarian Austrian, Bayerisch, Ost-Oberdeutsch
Population

7,000,000 in Austria (2005). Population total all countries: 13,259,000.

Location

Central Bavarian in the Alps and Lower Austria and Salzburg; North Bavarian north of Regensburg, to Nuremburg and Western Bohemia, Czech Republic; South Bavarian in Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, including the Heanzian dialect of Burgenland, Carinthia, northern Italy, and part of Gottschee. Also in Czech Republic, Germany, Italy.

Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification
Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Upper German, Bavarian-Austrian
Dialects

Central Bavarian (Danube Bavarian), North Bavarian (Upper Franconian), Salzburgish, South Bavarian.

Typology

SOV; prepositions; genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives before noun heads; question word initial; 2 prefixes, 3 to 4 suffixes on a word; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects; affixes indicate case of noun phrase; obligatory verb affixes mark person and number of subject, other suffixes can mark gender of subject and person, number, and gender of object; causatives; comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV, CCV

Language Use

Vigorous. School is taught in Standard German [deu].

Language Development
Bible: 1998.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Bavarian
Writing
Gothic script, no longer in use. Latin script.

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