Bavarian language

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Bavarian
Austro-Bavarian
Boarisch / Boirisch
Parking sign in Munich
Region	Bavaria (Germany) Austria South Tyrol (Italy)
Ethnicity	Bavarians Austrians South Tyroleans
Native speakers	15 million (2012)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Upper German Bavarian
Dialects	Northern Central Southern
Writing system	Latin alphabet, Marcomannic (historically)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bar
Glottolog	baye1239  Bairisch bava1246  Bavarian
Extent of Bavarian
Bavarian is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Bavarian (German: Bairisch [ˈbaɪʁɪʃ] ^ⓘ; Bavarian: Boarisch, Boirisch^[2]), alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south-east of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol.^[3] Prior to 1945, Bavarian was also prevalent in parts of the southern Sudetenland and western Hungary.^[4] Bavarian is spoken by approximately 12 million people in an area of around 125,000 square kilometres (48,000 sq mi), making it the largest of all German dialects. In 2008, 45 percent of Bavarians claimed to use only dialect in everyday communication.^[5]