Viennese German

Viennese
Weanarisch, Weanerisch
Native toAustria (Vienna)
Latin (German alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologvien1238
IETFbar-u-sd-at9
Viennese dialect
  Viennese

Viennese German (Bavarian: Weanarisch, Weanerisch, German: Wienerisch) is the city dialect spoken in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and is counted among the Bavarian dialects.[1] It is distinct from written Standard German in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Even in Lower Austria, the state surrounding the city, many of its expressions are not used, while farther to the west they are often not even understood.

  1. ^ Stevenson, Patrick (1997). The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German. Clarendon Press. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-19-823738-9.