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In some districts of Burgenland, Hungarian and Croatian have equal status to German as an official language." [9] About 250 languages are spoken throughout Austria, though many have very small populations of speakers. [9] Only about 20 languages (apart from official languages of Austria) have more than 10,000 speakers. [8]
The official Austrian dictionary, Österreichisches Wörterbuch, prescribes spelling rules that define the official language. [5] Austrian delegates participated in the international working group that drafted the German spelling reform of 1996 and several conferences leading up to the reform were hosted in Vienna at the invitation of the ...
The objective of the Austrian dictionary has never been to do classical language planning, but to do a re-codification of the form of the German language used in Austria. New terms were only included to the dictionary, when they had already been in considerable use in newspapers and contemporary literature.
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As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
Viennese differs from the Austrian form of Standard German, as well as from other dialects spoken in Austria.. At the beginning of the 20th century, one could differentiate between four Viennese dialects (named after the districts in which they were spoken): Favoritnerisch (Favoriten, 10th District), Meidlingerisch, (Meidling, 12th District), Ottakringerisch (Ottakring, 16th District), and ...
But unlike the Croatian standard language, which is mostly based on the most widespread Shtokavian dialect, the Burgenland variant of Croatian is based on the Chakavian dialect. Burgenland Croatian includes phrases no longer used in standard Croatian, as well as certain phrases and words taken from German and Hungarian.
Austrian language may refer to: Austrian German, the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria; One of the other Languages of Austria