Austrian German
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variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria and North Italy
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ˈøːstɐraɪçɪʃəs ˈʃtandardˌdɔʏtʃ, - ˈstan- ] , [ ˈøːstɐraɪçɪʃəs ˈhoːxdɔʏtʃ ]
- Region
- Austria
- Ethnicity
- Austrians
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Standard German Austrian German (Austrian)
- Official language in
- Austria
- Recognised minority language in
- Hungary Italy Slovenia
- Iso 639 3
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- Glottolog
- None
- Ietf
- de-AT
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Austrian German (German: Österreichisches Deutsch), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (Österreichisches Standarddeutsch), Austrian High German (Österreichisches Hochdeutsch), or simply just Austrian (Österreichisch), is the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria and South Tyrol. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the variation used in the media and for other formal situations. In less formal situations, Austrians use Bavarian and Alemannic dialects, which are traditionally spoken but rarely written in Austria. It has been standardized with the publishing of the Österreichisches Wörterbuch in 1951.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Austrian German” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.