Bavarian dialect
| Bavarian | |
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| Region | Austria, Bavaria, and South Tyrol |
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Native speakers
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14,000,000 (2015) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog |
bava1246 Bavarian properbaye1239 Bayerisch
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Location map of Bavarian
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Bavarian (Bavarian: [ˈbɔɑrɪʃ] or Bairisch; German: [ˈbaɪ̯ʀɪʃ] (
listen); Hungarian: ) is a language belonging to Upper German group, spoken in the southeast of the German language area, in much of Bavaria, much of Austria and South Tyrol in Italy. Before 1945, Bavarian was also prevalent in parts of southern Czech Republic and western Hungary. It forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants.
This cluster of dialects is classified as individual language (distinct and independent) by ISO 693-3 codification.
The Bavarians as a group formed in the early medieval period, as the population of the Duchy of Bavaria, forming the south-eastern part of the kingdom of Germany. The Old High German documents from the area of Bavaria are identified as Altbairisch ("Old Bavarian"), even though at this early date there are few distinctive features that would divide it from Alemannic German.
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