Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:
Stefl1504 said:
Barozi said:
nah he's just denying that his country doesn't have its own language but only a dialect :P
Also probably closer to high German than some other German dialects....
Swiss German however is kinda different.
Videogames in the European market have usually multiple languages on the disk. English, German, French being almost always included, followed by Italian, Spanish etc.
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Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:
Austrian vs. German
Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen
You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany
(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)
We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.
Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.
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And you really think that makes it any different to other German dialects ?
Because everything you just said can be applied to them with ease.
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*cough* no *cough*
there was some language congress that declared austrian a language by itself ;P
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I like your frequent use of the word "some" in front of "language congress", which kinda indicates that you don't take them seriously yourself or they're not really important at all.
Anyway in Northern Germany, Low German is an official language in many of the states and even taught in school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Charter_for_Regional_or_Minority_Languages
One step closer than Austrian or some other German dialects. In the end, every single "main" dialect could reach such a status. However, that wouldn't give the Austrian language more prestige, if all nations had like 10 official languages.
EDIT: Post number 10.000 !!!
