Central Bavarian

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Central Bavarian
Middle Bavarian; Mittelbairisch
Native to	Germany (Upper and Lower Bavaria) Austria (Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Burgenland)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Upper German Bavarian[1] Central Bavarian
Writing system	Latin (German alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	cent1967
Bavarian dialects after 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans   Central Bavarian

Central or Middle Bavarian form a subgroup of Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on the northern side of the Eastern Alps. They are spoken in the 'Old Bavarian' regions of Upper Bavaria (with Munich (see Munich German)), Lower Bavaria and in the adjacent parts of the Upper Palatinate region around Regensburg, in Upper and Lower Austria, in Vienna (see Viennese German), in the state of Salzburg, as well as in the northern and eastern parts of Styria and Burgenland. Before 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans, it was also spoken in Hungary and southern Bohemia and Moravia.^[2] It also influenced Austrian German.