Bavarian language
Spoken language
Bavarian, alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol. Wikipedia
Dialects: Northern Bavarian
Language families: Indo-European languages, Germanic languages, West Germanic languages, and more
Ethnicity: Bavarians; Austrians; South Tyroleans
Native speakers: 15 million (2012)
Region: Bavaria (Germany); Austria; South Tyrol (Italy)
Writing system: Latin alphabet, Marcomannic (historically)