Talk:Austrian German
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Hi all,
Austro-Bavarian (the other link) would be the correct term:
Austro-Bavarian is a language spoken in Southern Bavaria, the major part of Austria (w/o Vorarlberg, where Alemannic is spoken), and South Tyrol (politically a part of Italy). Historically Austro-Bavarian is a "German" - better: Germanic -language, but not identical to the German Standard language. Austro-Bavarian has influenced the German Standard language (and unfortunately also vice versa).
There are 3 main dialect groups in Austro-Bavarian: Northern A/B (so-called "Upper-Palatinate dialect", Central A/B (along the main rivers Isar and Danube - e.g., Viennese and Munich area dialect), and Southern A/B (e.g., in Tyrol, Carinthia, and South Tyrol).
There exist Grammars, Vocabularies, and a translation of the Bible, but unfortunately there is no common standard for how to write the language. A/B is under strong pressure by (esp. German) mass-media, which to 99.9% promote Standard German and even try to suppress the Austro-Bavarian accent in Standard German.
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i think this needs clean-up, i kept reading the same words over again, it was just two or three sentences that were continually repeated throughout
