BAR ISO 639-3
Bavarian
Boarisch Autonym
A language of Austria
- ISO 639
- bar
- Alternate Names
- Bairisch, Bavarian Austrian, Bayerisch, Ost-Oberdeutsch
- Autonym
- Boarisch
- Population
- 8,280,000 in Austria (European Commission 2012). Total users in all countries: 14,539,000.
- Location:
- Lower Austria and Salzburg states; Burgenland, Carinthia, and Styria (Northern Bavarian dialect).
- 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), South Bavarian, Salzburgish.
- 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. Also use Standard German [deu]. Language of instruction in school.
- Language Development
- Bible: 1998.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Bavarian
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn].
- Other Comments
- Dialects: North Bavarian north of Regensburg, to Nuremburg and Western Bohemia, Czechia; South Bavarian in Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, including the Heanzian dialect of Burgenland, Carinthia, northern Italy, and part of Gottschee.
Also Spoken in
- Location
- Karlovy Vary and Plzen regions; Vysocina region: Jihlavsky.
- Dialects
- Central Bavarian, North Bavarian, South Bavarian (Heanzian).
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. View other languages of Czechia
Language Name
Bavarian
User Population
9,000 in Czechia (2005).
- Location
- Bayern state: Regensburg north to Nuremburg.
- Dialects
- Central Bavarian, North Bavarian, South Bavarian.
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. View other languages of Germany
Language Name
Bavarian
User Population
6,000,000 in Germany (2005).
- Location
- Trentino-Alto Adige region: south Tyrol.
- Dialects
- Central Bavarian, North Bavarian, South Bavarian.
- Language Status
- 5 (Developing)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. View other languages of Italy
Language Name
Bavarian
User Population
250,000 in Italy (2005).
Map
Location: Lower Austria and Salzburg states; Burgenland, Carinthia, and Styria (Northern Bavarian dialect).
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