Alternate Names: Bairisch, Bavarian Austrian, Bayerisch, Ost-Oberdeutsch
Dialects: Central Bavarian (Danube Bavarian), North Bavarian (Upper Franconian), Salzburgish, South Bavarian.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 7,830,000 in Austria (ELDIA 2012). Population total all countries: 14,089,000.
Language Use: Vigorous. School is taught in Standard German [deu].
Language Development: Bible: 1998.
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.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Austria