Dialect comparison

Bairisch vs Plattdüütsch

Compare two dialects of German side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Bairisch

Bavarian · Bavarian-Austrian

A large Upper German dialect group spoken across Bavaria and most of Austria, with distinctive vowel shifts and vocabulary far removed from Standard German.

Approximate centre
48.14°, 11.57°
Plattdüütsch

Low German · Niederdeutsch · Plattdeutsch

The Low German varieties of northern Germany and the eastern Netherlands. Linguistically closer to Dutch and English than to Standard German in several core features.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
53.55°, 9.99°

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