Wiktionary:About Bavarian
Bavarian is a group of Germanic dialects in the southeast of the German language area, particularly in Bavaria, Austria and Italy.
See also
[edit]- Wiktionary:About Gottscheerish (the Bavarian lect spoken by Gottscheers, which has its own header + code, gmw-gts)
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]The Bavarian is based on an unreliable and unsourced source, and simplified/incomplete.
| Standard German | Bavarian[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letters | IPA | Example | North (Upper Palatinate) |
Mid-west (Southern Bavaria) |
Mid-east (Austria) |
South (Tyrol) |
| a | [a] | Wasser | [ɒ~ɔ] | [ɔ] | ||
| Platz | [oː], [ɔː] | [ɔː], [ɒː] | ||||
| [aː] | Wagen | [ɔː], [oː] | ||||
| Schaf | [ɔu̯] | |||||
| ä | [ɛ] | Plätze | [a], [e] | [e] | [a] | |
| [ɛː] | Wägen | [aː], [eː] | [eː] | [aː] | ||
| Käse | [aː] | |||||
| e | [ɛ] | Bett | [e] | [ɛ] | ||
| Essen | [e], [ɛ] | [e] | ||||
| Dreck | [eː] | [eː], [ɛː] | [eː] | |||
| [eː] | Feder | [ɛː], [eː~ei̯] | ||||
| Esel | [eː], [iː] | [eː] | [eː~ei̯] | |||
| Schnee | [ɛi̯] | [ɛː] | [ɛɐ̯] | |||
| i, ie | [ɪ] | bitten | [i] | [i] | ||
| Fisch | [iː] | |||||
| [iː] | nieder | [iː] | [iː], [iɐ̯] | [iː] | ||
| fliegen | [ei̯] | [iɐ̯] | ||||
| o | [ɔ] | Glocke | [o] | [o] | ||
| Frosch | [oː], [uː] | [oː] | ||||
| [oː] | Vogel | [oː~ou̯] | ||||
| rot | [ɔu̯] | [ou̯] | [oː], [ɔː] | [ɔɐ̯] | ||
| ö | [œ] | Frösche | [e] | |||
| [øː] | Vögel | [eː], [iː] | [eː] | [eː], [øː] | [eː~ei̯] | |
| böse | [ɛi̯] | [ɛː] | [ɛɐ̯] | |||
| u | [ʊ] | dumm | [u] | [u] | ||
| Guss | [uː] | |||||
| [uː] | Kuh | [ou̯] | [uɐ̯] | |||
| ü | [ʏ] | Brücke | [u] | |||
| Schlüssel | [i] | |||||
| [y] | Flügel | [iː] | [iː], [yː] | [iː], [iɐ̯] | ||
| Kühe | [ei̯] | [iɐ̯] | ||||
| au | [aʊ̯] | Baum | [aː] | |||
| Haus | [au̯] | [ạu̯]/[au̯], [aː], [ɒː] | [ɒu̯] | [au̯] | ||
| äu | [ɔʏ̯] | Bäume | [aː], [ai̯] | [aː] | ||
| Häuser | [ai̯] | [æe̯] | [ai̯] | |||
| eu | Feuer | [ui̯~oi̯] | ||||
| ei | [aɪ̯] | Eis | [ai̯] | |||
| breit | [oɐ̯] | [oɐ̯] | ||||
| Leiter | [oi̯] | |||||