Bavarian
major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area Bavaria
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Summary
Bavarian is a dialect continuum[1]. Bavarian ranks in the top 3% of dialect continuum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,064 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Austria[3], Germany[4]
- Instance of: language[5], dialect[6], modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Upper German[8]
- Writing system: Latin script[9]
- Commons category: Bavarian language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: bar[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Bavarian language[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 14,100,000[13], 14,089,000[14]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15]
- Native label: Boarisch[16]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[17]
- Indigenous to: Bavaria[18], Burgenland[19], Carinthia[20], Lower Austria[21], Salzburg[22], Styria[23], South Tyrol[24]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BAR[25], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133070360[26]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[27]
- Dialect of: German[28]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[29], feminine[30], neuter[31]
- Uses capitalization for: noun[32]
- Related category: Category:Bavarian pronunciation[33]
Why It Matters
Bavarian has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] Bavarian is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]