Austria

Lovari

A Vlax Romani variety with strong Hungarian and Slavic influence. Spoken across Central Europe.

Hochdeutsch

also: Standard German, Standard High German, Schriftdeutsch

The codified standard variety of German used in education, media, and administration across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Based on the High German consonant shift and a written norm dating to Luther; the spoken standard is conventionally associated with the Hanover region of Lower Saxony.

Bairisch

also: 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.

Wienerisch

also: Viennese

The urban Bavarian dialect of Vienna, layered with Yiddish, Czech, and Italian loanwords from the city's long Habsburg history.

Burgenland Croatian

also: Gradišćanskohrvatski, Burgenland Croat

A Croatian minority language of Burgenland in eastern Austria, descended from Croatian-speaking refugees and settlers who arrived in the Habsburg borderlands from the sixteenth century onward. It has its own literary tradition and is used in bilingual education, church life, and minority media.