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class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Languages_Austria.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Languages_Austria.svg/250px-Languages_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Languages_Austria.svg/375px-Languages_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Languages_Austria.svg/500px-Languages_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1052" data-file-height="744" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">Official</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a><sup id="cite_ref-bundesverfassungofficial_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bundesverfassungofficial-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recognised</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Austrian_German" title="Austrian German">Austrian German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alemannic_German" title="Alemannic German">Alemannic</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Bavarian_language" title="Bavarian language">Bavarian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regional_language" title="Regional language">Regional</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Croatian_language" title="Croatian language">Croatian</a> (<a href="/wiki/Burgenland_Croatian" title="Burgenland Croatian">Burgenland</a>), <a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovene_language" title="Slovene language">Slovene</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddish language">Yiddish</a> (historically)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Minority_language" title="Minority language">Minority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bosnian_language" title="Bosnian language">Bosnian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_language" title="Foreign language">Foreign</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> (73%) <br /> <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> (11%)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> (9%)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sign_language" title="Sign language">Signed</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Sign_Language" title="Austrian Sign Language">Austrian Sign Language</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Keyboard_layout" title="Keyboard layout">Keyboard layout</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/QWERTZ" title="QWERTZ">QWERTZ</a><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:KB_Germany.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB_Germany.svg/200px-KB_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB_Germany.svg/300px-KB_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB_Germany.svg/400px-KB_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf">ebs_386_en.pdf</a> (<a href="/wiki/Europa.eu" class="mw-redirect" title="Europa.eu">europa.eu</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The languages of <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a></b> include <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, the official language and <i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a></i>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Austro-Bavarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Austro-Bavarian">Austro-Bavarian</a>, the main dialect outside <a href="/wiki/Vorarlberg" title="Vorarlberg">Vorarlberg</a>; <a href="/wiki/Alemannic_German" title="Alemannic German">Alemannic</a>, the main dialect in Vorarlberg; and several minority languages. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Standard_German">Standard German</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Standard German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>German is the national official language<sup id="cite_ref-bundesverfassungofficial_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bundesverfassungofficial-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and constitutes a <i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> first language: most Austrians other than (mostly rural) seniors are able to speak it. It is the language used in media, in schools, and formal announcements. The variety of German used, <a href="/wiki/Austrian_German" title="Austrian German">Austrian German</a>, is partially influenced by Austro-Bavarian.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alemannic">Alemannic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Alemannic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alemannic, i.e., Swiss German, is spoken by about 300,000 people, mostly in <a href="/wiki/Vorarlberg" title="Vorarlberg">Vorarlberg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vorarlberg uses a <a href="/wiki/High_Alemannic_German" title="High Alemannic German">High Alemannic</a>, the same dialect group as that spoken in Northern Switzerland (outside Basel) and parts of southern Alsace, France. To most German-speakers, it is very difficult to understand.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Austro-Bavarian">Austro-Bavarian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Austro-Bavarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main native language of Austria outside Vorarlberg is Austro-Bavarian. It has approximately 8.3 million speakers in Austria.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The north-eastern parts of Austria (with the capital <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>) speak <a href="/wiki/Central_Austro-Bavarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Austro-Bavarian">Central Austro-Bavarian</a> dialects and the southern parts <a href="/wiki/Southern_Austro-Bavarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Austro-Bavarian">Southern Austro-Bavarian</a> dialects. </p><p>Austro-Bavarian differs greatly from Standard German, making it very difficult for German speakers of different regions to understand the native population. </p><p>Austro-Bavarian has no official orthography,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there are literary efforts (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialektliteratur" class="extiw" title="de:Dialektliteratur">de:Dialektliteratur</a>), especially in poems, to depict the sound of the pronunciation in the spelling. Other words can only be heard while visiting particular regions of Austria and Bavaria; such words/phrases are only rarely used in Standard German. These include <i>Griaß God</i> (literally: 'greet God' = 'may God greet you'), and <i>Servus/Servas</i> 'at your service' as greeting phrases. Other terms are strictly dialectal, like <i>Pfiat di / Pfiat eich (euch)</i> (literally: 'watch over you [God]' = 'may God watch over you'), meaning 'goodbye'. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minority_languages">Minority languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Minority languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Minority_languages_of_Austria" title="Minority languages of Austria">Minority languages of Austria</a></div> <p>A number of minority languages are spoken in Austria, some of which have official status.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the European Commission, Austria's "recognized minority languages are Hungarian, Slovenian, Burgenland-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Romany and sign language. In the mixed-language districts of Carinthia, Slovene is also considered an official language. In some districts of Burgenland, Hungarian and Croatian have equal status to German as an official language."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About 250 languages are spoken throughout Austria, though many have very small populations of speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only about 20 languages (apart from official languages of Austria) have more than 10,000 speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"> <caption>Non-Official Languages with 10,000+ speakers in Austria (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Language </th> <th>Number of speakers<br />(in Austria) </th></tr> <tr> <td>French* </td> <td>1,181,300 <i>(L1: 11,300)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Italian* </td> <td>795,900 <i>(L1: 11,900)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Spanish* </td> <td>302,100 <i>(L1: 11,100)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Russian* </td> <td>150,000 <i>(L1: 9,390)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Serbo-Croatian </td> <td>381,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkish </td> <td>204,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hungarian </td> <td>45,100 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Polish </td> <td>34,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Albanian (Gheg) </td> <td>31,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Albanian (Tosk) </td> <td>28,200 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Slovene </td> <td>27,600 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Bergenland Croatian </td> <td>21,600 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Czech </td> <td>19,700 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Arabic (Levantine) </td> <td>19,600 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Romanian </td> <td>18,800 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Persian (Iranian) </td> <td>11,900 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Slovak </td> <td>11,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chinese (Mandarin) </td> <td>11,100 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Serbo-Croatian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a> is the largest minority language in Austria, spoken by more than 4% of the population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkish">Turkish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Turkish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> is the second largest minority language, in a situation almost mirroring that of <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, spoken by 2.3% of the population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romanian">Romanian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Romanian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2021, Ethnologue reports there were an estimated 18,800 Romanian speakers in Austria.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Burgenland_Croatian">Burgenland Croatian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Burgenland Croatian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Burgenland Croatian, an official language in Austrian <a href="/wiki/Burgenland" title="Burgenland">Burgenland</a>, is spoken by 2.5% of Austrians, and <a href="/wiki/Burgenland_Croats" title="Burgenland Croats">Burgenland Croats</a> are recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights following the <a href="/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty" title="Austrian State Treaty">Austrian State Treaty</a> (<i>Staatsvertrag</i>) of 1955. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungarian">Hungarian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Hungarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link 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Today, Hungarian is spoken by around 1,000 people in Burgenland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slovene">Slovene</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Slovene"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Jaun_Valley_dialect" title="Jaun Valley dialect">Jaun Valley dialect</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ebriach_dialect" title="Ebriach dialect">Ebriach dialect</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosen_Valley_dialect" title="Rosen Valley dialect">Rosen Valley dialect</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gail_Valley_dialect" title="Gail Valley dialect">Gail Valley dialect</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_(Slovenes).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png/300px-Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png/450px-Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png/600px-Map_at_carinthia_municipalities_%28Slovenes%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Areas in Carinthia where Slovene is spoken by above 5% (light-blue) to above 30% (dark-blue) of the population.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Slovene_language" title="Slovene language">Slovene</a> is an official language in Austrian <a href="/wiki/Carinthia" title="Carinthia">Carinthia</a>. As of the census in 2001<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> Slovene is used by 12,686 Austrians as vernacular, and it is reported that Slovene can be spoken by 0.3% of Austrians. <a href="/wiki/Carinthian_Slovenes" title="Carinthian Slovenes">Carinthian Slovenes</a> are recognized as a minority and have enjoyed special rights and affirmative action following the Austrian State Treaty (<i>Staatsvertrag</i>) of 1955. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages">European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Austria ratified the <a href="/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages" title="European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages">European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</a> on 28 June 2001<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the following languages in respect of specific <a href="/wiki/States_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="States of Austria">Länder</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_language" title="Croatian language">Croatian</a> of <a href="/wiki/Burgenland" title="Burgenland">Burgenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovene_language" title="Slovene language">Slovene</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Carinthia_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carinthia (state)">Carinthia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Styria" title="Styria">Styria</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a> (in Burgenland and <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a> (in Vienna)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak</a> (in Vienna)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a> (in Burgenland)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Languages_of_Austria&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" 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