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| Central Bavarian | |
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| Middle Bavarian;Mittelbairisch | |
| Native to | Germany (Upper andLower Bavaria) Austria (Upper andLower Austria,Salzburg,Styria,Burgenland) |
| Latin (German alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | cent1967 |
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Central orMiddle Bavarian form a subgroup ofBavarian dialects in large parts ofAustria and the Free State ofBavaria along theDanube river, on the northern side of theEastern Alps. They are spoken in the 'Old Bavarian' regions ofUpper Bavaria (withMunich),Lower Bavaria and in the adjacent parts of theUpper Palatinate region aroundRegensburg, inUpper andLower Austria, inVienna (seeViennese German), in the state ofSalzburg, as well as in the northern and eastern parts ofStyria andBurgenland. Before 1945 and theexpulsions of the Germans, it was also spoken in Hungary and southern Bohemia and Moravia.[2]It also influencedAustrian German.
There are noticeable differences in the language within the group, but changes occur along a west-eastdialect continuum on both sides of the historic border of theBavarian stem duchy with the laterDuchy of Austria. That means that the distinct languages of Vienna and Munich are very different from each other, but the dialects of any two neighbouring towns in between will be quite similar.[citation needed] However, due to influences of the corresponding political centres, discontinuous change is nowadays noticeable along the national border betweenAustria andGermany.[citation needed]Generally, Viennese has some characteristics differentiating it from other Bavarian dialects due to the influence of languages spoken by people moving to Vienna from many areas ofAustria-Hungary during the 19th century.[citation needed]
A characteristic of Central Bavarian is the vocalization ofl andr aftere ori. E.g. the standard Germanviel becomes eithervui (in Western Central Bavarian) orvüü (in Eastern Central Bavarian).The border between the western and eastern subgroups roughly coincides with the border betweenBavaria andAustria.
In all subgroups, hard consonants such asp, t, k are softened to becomeb, d, g.
