Bavarian

major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area Bavaria
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Bavarian

Summary

Bavarian is a dialect continuum[1]. Bavarian ranks in the top 3% of dialect_continuum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,168 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bavarian is in the country of Austria[3].
  • Bavarian is in the country of Germany[4].
  • Bavarian's video is recorded as Bavarian (Wikitongues).ogg[5].
  • Bavarian's video is recorded as WIKITONGUES- Carolin speaking Bavarian.webm[6].
  • Bavarian's instance of is recorded as dialect continuum[7].
  • Bavarian's instance of is recorded as language[8].
  • Bavarian's instance of is recorded as dialect[9].
  • Bavarian's instance of is recorded as modern language[10].
  • Bavarian's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as bar[11].
  • Bavarian's GND ID is recorded as 4112659-2[12].
  • Bavarian's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11934460d[13].
  • Bavarian's subclass of is recorded as Upper German[14].
  • Bavarian's writing system is recorded as Latin script[15].
  • Bavarian's IETF language tag is recorded as bar[16].
  • Bavarian's Commons category is recorded as Bavarian language[17].
  • Bavarian's Wikimedia language code is recorded as bar[18].
  • Bavarian's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 48, 'lon': 12.5}[19].
  • Bavarian's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0140n_[20].
  • Bavarian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bavarian language[21].
  • Bavarian's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300387961[22].
  • Bavarian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+14100000'}[23].
  • Bavarian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+14089000'}[24].
  • Bavarian's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[25].
  • Bavarian's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000367589[26].
  • Bavarian's Glottolog code is recorded as bava1246[27].

Why It Matters

Bavarian ranks in the top 3% of dialect_continuum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,168 views/month).[2] Bavarian has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Bavarian is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . World Atlas of Language Structures. Retrieved . wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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