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The Tyrolean dialect comes from the Bavarian language. In South Tyrol, the Tyrolean dialect was mixed with a few individual Italian words. Due to the difficult accessibility of the valleys in earlier years, many other valleys developed a slightly differentiated dialect compared to the Tyrolean.
Tyrolean may refer to: Anything from Tyrol (state) (Austria), South Tyrol (Italy) or the historical County of Tyrol or region of Tyrol; Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car; Tyrolean Airways; Tyrolean hat; Tyrolean traverse, mountaineering manoeuvre; Tyrolean Hound; A type of cement render, applied by a hand-operated machine
This, together with the economic decline under Bavarian rule, and the kingdom's religious reforms which were opposed by the Catholic population, led to a growing conflict between the Tyrolean population and the Bavarian authorities. [6] In 1806, delegates from Tyrol travelled to Vienna to make plans for an insurrection of the Tyrolean people.
Tyrol (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ l, t aɪ ˈ r oʊ l, ˈ t aɪ r oʊ l / tih-ROHL, ty-ROHL, TY-rohl; [3] German: Tirol ⓘ; Italian: Tirolo [tiˈrɔːlo]) is an Austrian federal state.It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol.
A map from 1874 showing South Tirol with approximately the borders of today's South and East Tyrol. South Tyrol (occasionally South Tirol) is the term most commonly used in English for the province, [10] and its usage reflects that it was created from a portion of the southern part of the historic County of Tyrol, a former state of the Holy Roman Empire and crown land of the Austrian Empire of ...
In climbing, a Tyrolean traverse is a technique that enables climbers to cross a void between two fixed points, such as between a headland a detached rock pillar (e.g. a sea stack), or between two points that enable the climbers to cross over an obstacle such as chasm or ravine, or over a fast moving river. [1]
The Tyrolean hat (German: Tirolerhut, Italian: cappello alpino), also Tyrolese hat, Bavarian hat or Alpine hat, is a type of headwear that originally came from the Tyrol in the Alps, in what is now part of Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
South Tyrolean tends to be used at home or in informal situations, while standard German in its Austrian variant prevails at school, work and for official purposes. As such, this is a medial diglossia, since the spoken language is mainly the dialect, whereas the written language is mainly the Austrian German variety of Standard German. [1]