Southern Bavarian
| Southern Bavarian | |
|---|---|
| Südbairisch[1] | |
| Spoken in | Austria (Carinthia, Tyrol, Styria), Italy, (South Tyrol)[1] |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | Latin (German alphabet) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Bavarian dialects
Southern Bavarian
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Southern Bavarian, or Southern Austro-Bavarian, is a cluster of Germanic dialects of the Bavarian group.
They are primarily spoken in the Austrian federal-states of Tyrol, Carinthia and Styria, in the southern parts of Salzburg and Burgenland as well as in the Italian province of South Tyrol. There is also a small region in German Upper Bavaria around Garmisch-Partenkirchen where the dialect is also spoken.
The speech area historically included the former linguistic enclaves in Carniola (present-day Slovenia) around Gottschee (Gottscheerish in Gottschee County), Sorica (Zarz) and Nemški Rovt (Deutsch Ruth). The Cimbrian language still spoken in several language-islands in north-eastern Italy (Friuli, Veneto and Trentino) mostly counts as a separate Bavarian language variant.
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- ^ a b c Ethnologue entry
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