Austrian German

Not to be confused with Austro-Bavarian dialects.

Austrian German (Austrian)
Austrian Standard German
Austrian High German
Österreichisches Standarddeutsch
Österreichisches Hochdeutsch
Pronunciation[ˈøːstɐraɪçɪʃəs ˈʃtandardˌdɔʏtʃ, - ˈstan-]
[ˈøːstɐraɪçɪʃəs ˈhoːxdɔʏtʃ]
RegionAustria
EthnicityAustrians
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone
IETFde-AT[1]

Austrian German[2] (German: Österreichisches Deutsch), Austrian Standard German (ASG),[3][4] Standard Austrian German[5] (Österreichisches Standarddeutsch), Austrian High German[2][6] (Österreichisches Hochdeutsch), or simply just Austrian (Österreichisch), is the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria and South Tyrol. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the variation used in the media and for other formal situations. In less formal situations, Austrians use Bavarian and Alemannic dialects, which are traditionally spoken but rarely written in Austria. It has been standardized with the publishing of the Österreichisches Wörterbuch in 1951.[7][8]

  1. ^ de-AT is an IETF language tag that conforms with the current specification BCP 47 Language Tags (where de-AT happens to be mentioned explicitly). It is often used, for instance in major operating systems (e.g. [1], [2])
  2. ^ a b "The problems of Austrian German in Europe". eurotopics.net. euro|topics. 16 March 2006. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ^ Russ (1994:7, 61–65, 69, 70)
  4. ^ Sanders, Ruth H. (2010), German: Biography of a Language, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 197–198, ISBN 978-0-19-538845-9
  5. ^ Moosmüller, Sylvia (2007), Vowels in Standard Austrian German: An Acoustic-Phonetic and Phonological Analysis (PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022, retrieved 13 May 2015
  6. ^ Perfetti, Charles A.; Rieben, Laurence; Fayol, Michel, eds. (1997), Learning to Spell: Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 88, ISBN 978-1-4106-0458-3
  7. ^ Ebner, Jakob (2008). Duden: Österreichisches Deutsch (PDF). Dudenverl. 11-13. ISBN 978-3-411-73131-2. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  8. ^ Moosmüller, Sylvia; Soukup, Barbara. "Standard language in Austria" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.