| Population |
7,000,000 in Austria (2005). Population total all countries: 13,259,000. |
| Region |
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. |
| Alternate names |
Bairisch, Bavarian Austrian, Bayerisch, Ost-Oberdeutsch |
| Dialects |
Central Bavarian (Danube Bavarian), North Bavarian (Upper Franconian), South Bavarian, Salzburgish. |
| Classification |
Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Upper German, Bavarian-Austrian |
| Language use |
Vigorous. School is taught in Standard German. |
| Language development |
Bible: 1998. |
| Writing system |
Gothic script, no longer in use. Latin script. |
| Comments |
SVO; 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 name |
Bavarian |
| Population |
6,000,000 in Germany (2005). |
| Region |
North Bavarian: north of Regensburg, to Nuremburg and Western Bohemia, Czech Republic; Central Bavarian: Alps and Salzburg; South Bavarian: Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, including the Heanzian dialect of Burgenland, Carinthia, northern Italy, and part of Gottschee in Slovenia. |
| Alternate names |
Bairisch, Bavarian Austrian, Bayerisch |
| Dialects |
Central Bavarian, North Bavarian, South Bavarian. |
| Language use |
Some also use Czech [ces]. School is taught in Standard German. |
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