Southern Bavarian
| Southern Bavarian | |
|---|---|
| Südbairisch[1] | |
| Native to | Austria (Carinthia, Tyrol, Styria), Italy, (South Tyrol)[1] |
Native speakers | (no estimate available) |
| Latin (German alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Bavarian dialects
Southern Bavarian | |
Southern Bavarian, or Southern Austro-Bavarian, is a cluster of Germanic dialects of the Bavarian group.
They are primarily spoken in the Austrian federal-states of Tyrol, Carinthia and Styria, in the southern parts of Salzburg and Burgenland as well as in the Italian province of South Tyrol. There is also a small region in German Upper Bavaria around Garmisch-Partenkirchen where the dialect is also spoken.
The speech area historically included the former linguistic enclaves in Carniola (present-day Slovenia) around Gottschee (Gottscheerish in the Gottschee region), Sorica (Zarz) and Nemški Rovt (Deutsch Ruth). The Cimbrian language still spoken in several language-islands in north-eastern Italy (Friuli, Veneto and Trentino) mostly counts as a separate Bavarian language variant.