South Tyrolean dialect

South Tyrolean dialect
Tyrolese
Südtiroulerisch/Sîdtiroul(er)isch
RegionSouth Tyrol
Native speakers
(undated figure of 300,000[citation needed])
German Alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-2gem
ISO 639-3bar
Glottologtyro1234  Tyrol Bavarian

South Tyrolean German or South Tyrolese (Südtiroulerisch or Sîdtiroul(er)isch; Standard German: Südtirolerisch or Südtirolisch) is a dialect spoken in the northern Italian province of South Tyrol. It is generally considered to be a sub-variety of Southern Bavarian,[1] and has many similarities with other South German varieties, in particular with varieties of Austrian Standard German. It may develop its own standard variety of German,[2] though currently is linguistically heteronomous to German Standard German (see One Standard German Axiom for discussion).

What differentiates South Tyrolean German from other Bavarian varieties is primarily the influence of Italian and Ladin on its lexicon.

  1. ^ Zambrelli, Martina (2004). "INTERFERENZE LESSICALI IN SITUAZIONI DI CONTATTO LINGUISTICO" (PDF).
  2. ^ Hofer (2020). Deutsch ist nicht gleich Deutsch (in German) (University of Vienna PhD thesis ed.). Wien.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)