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Name:
Bavarian
Alternate Names:
German (Bavarian); Bayerisch; Bairisch; Bavarian Austrian; Ost-Oberdeutsch
Spoken in:
Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Number of speakers:
7,000,000 in Austria (2005). Population total all countries: 13,259,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
7667478
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
bar
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Bavarian-Austrian; Bavarian Austrian (bava)
Child Dialects:
North Bavarian (bar-nor)
Central Bavarian (bar-cen)
South Bavarian (bar-sou)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Bavarian
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