The Tyrolean Oberland ( German : Tiroler Oberland ) is that part of the Austrian state of Tyrol west of Innsbruck or, more precisely, west of the Melach river, but excluding the Außerfern region.
6-688: The most common dialect in the Tyrolean Oberland is Southern Austro-Bavarian , an Alemannian accent becoming increasingly noticeable the further west of Imst one goes. The dialect in the Walser village of Galtür and in St. Anton am Arlberg can be considered part of the Alemannic dialect continuum. In many cases the region of Außerfern is also counted as part of the Oberland, although it
12-677: A separate Bavarian language variant. Southern Bavarian is also spoken in the Werdenfelser Land region around Mittenwald and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in German Upper Bavaria . The Tyrolean Unterland , the Alpine regions of Salzburg ( Pinzgau , Pongau and Lungau ), as well as the adjacent parts of Styria and southern Burgenland form the dialect continuum with the Central Bavarian language area in
18-818: Is a cluster of Upper German dialects of the Bavarian group. They are primarily spoken in Tyrol (i.e. the Austrian federal state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol ), in Carinthia and in the western parts of Upper Styria . Before 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans , it was also spoken in speech islands in Italy and Yugoslavia. Due to the geographic isolation of these Alpine regions, many features of
24-690: Is very isolated from the Tyrolean Oberland. The reasons for this are mainly administrative in nature, because the Außerfern has a very low population. In addition, several dialects in the Außerfern are very similar to the Oberland dialects and cause confusion even within Tyrol itself. In the NUTS classification by the European Union for official statistics the Tirolean Oberland is one of
30-982: The Old Bavarian language from the Middle High German period have been preserved. On the other hand, the Southern Bavarian dialect area is influenced by the Rhaeto-Romance languages , locally also Slovene and to a lesser extent Italian . The speech area historically included the former linguistic enclaves in Carniola (present-day Slovenia ) around Kočevje in the Gottschee region ( Gottscheerish ), Sorica (Zarz) and Nemški Rovt (Deutsch Ruth) . The Cimbrian language still spoken in several language-islands in north-eastern Italy ( Friuli , Veneto and Trentino ) mostly counts as
36-510: The five groups of districts (level NUTS:AT 2) in Tyrol; it has the code AT334 and covers the two political districts of: The district of Innsbruck Land , which traditionally counts as part of Oberland and Unterland, falls within AT332 Innsbruck group of districts. This Tyrol location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern Austro-Bavarian Southern Bavarian or South Bavarian ,
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