In addition to this standard variety, in everyday life most Austrians speak one of a number of Upper German dialects.

With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Austrians, which is distinct from that of Germany or Switzerland.

* Dialects of the Austro-Bavarian group, which also comprises the dialects of German Bavaria

The Central Austro-Bavarian dialects are more intelligible to speakers of Standard German than the Southern Austro-Bavarian dialects of Tyrol.

Category: German dialects

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

Alemannic German dialects have unaspirated as well as aspirated ; the latter series are usually viewed as consonant clusters.

* Austro-Bavarian, a group of closely related dialects of German, spoken in parts of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Alto Adige / Südtirol

The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.

In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

* German dialects

Austrian German (), or Austrian Standard German, is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and in the autonomous Province of South Tyrol ( Italy ).

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Portrait of Oswolt Krel, a merchant from Lindau ( Lake Constance ), participating in the South German medieval trade corporation Große Ravensburg er Handelsgesellschaft, 1499.

The Boer nation is mainly descended from Dutch, German and French Huguenots, who migrated to South Africa during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.

Category: South African people of German descent

File: HJRK A 2269-Crossbow windlass, late 15th century. jpg | Iron cranequin, South German, late 15th century

* German South West Africa

* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Elijah's offering is consumed by fire from heaven in a stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina

Stained glass depiction of St. Luke at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Stained glass depiction of St. John at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The war resulted in the Confederation being partially replaced by a North German Confederation in 1867 which included Prussia but excluded Austria and the South German states.

Further observations were made by the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt during his South American journey from 1799 to 1803.

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

* German South West Africa-Namibia

Some points of interest are the Planet M., the former German Pavillon, some nations ' vacant pavilions, the Expowale, the EXPO-Plaza and the EXPO-Gardens ( Parc Agricole, EXPO-Park South and the Gardens of change ).

Examples include the German Marder and Puma, the Chinese ZBD-97, the Soviet / Russian BMP-3, the Indian Abhay IFV, the Yugoslavian BVP M-80, the Canadian LAV III, the British Warrior, the American M2 Bradley, the Spanish Pizarro / ASCOD, the Italian Dardo, the South African Ratel, the French AMX-10P and VBCI, the Swedish Combat Vehicle 90 and the Dutch YPR-765 AIFV.

The Empire of Japan occupied the Marshall Islands in World War I, which were later joined with other former German territories in 1919 by the League of Nations to form the South Pacific Mandate.

Mary of Magdala at the Empty Tomb window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The minority white population is primarily of South African, British, and German descent, with a few Portuguese.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

Spanish law recognises the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia and the Basque Country as " nationalities " ( nacionalidades ), while in Italy, the German speakers of South Tyrol are considered to be Austrian nationals.

After World War I, Trento and its Italian-speaking province, along with Bolzano ( Bozen ) and the part of Tyrol that stretched south of the Alpine watershed ( which was, in the main, German speaking ), were annexed by Italy.

German troops promptly invaded northern Italy and the provinces of Trento, Belluno and South Tyrol became part of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills, annexed to Greater Germany.

In 1430 King Sigismund summoned the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire to a Reichstag in the city of Nuremberg and Oswald with his brother Michael immediately left Tyrol to meet the King, who instead of going directly to Nuremberg undertook a two-month detour to the South German cities of Überlingen and Constance to celebrate Christmas.

The present Catholic church, built in 1925, has stained glass windows from Czechoslovakia, mosaics from Munich, a statue of St. Anthony from Italy, and statuary carved in the German Tyrol.

The local ordinance status of a market town ( Marktgemeinde or Markt ) is perpetuated through the law of the German state of Bavaria, Austria and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

There Renner had to accept that this new Austria was prohibited any political association with Germany and he had to accept the loss of German speaking South Tyrol and the German-speaking parts of Bohemia and Moravia where he himself was born ; this forced him to give up his share in the parental farm if he, " the peasant proprietor who turned Marxist ", wanted to remain an Austrian government officer.

Meyers Blitz-Lexikon ( Weimar Republic | Leipzig, 1932 ) shows a German Tyrol | Tyrol ian woman as an example of the Dinaric type.

Bolzano ( German: Bozen ; Ladin: Balsan or Bulsan ; ) is a city and the capital of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.

German speakers in Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, Italy follow the standard rules for ß used in Germany and Austria.

Tyrol ( German: ; ; ) is a historical region of Europe.

* German Tyrol, the German-speaking area of the old County of Tyrol

Volksmusik ( literally translated from the German as " people's music ") is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional music from the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol ( Italy ).

The border between Germany and Austria runs over the west summit ; thus the Zugspitze massif belongs to the German state of Bavaria and the Austrian state of Tyrol.

In the Treaty of London, they had been offered the Trentino and the Tyrol as far as Brenner, Trieste and Istria, all the Dalmatian coast except Fiume, full ownership of Albanian Valona and a protectorate over Albania, Antalya in Turkey and a share of Turkish and German Empires in Africa.

For use in correspondence with German princes: The Most Serene, Highborn Prince and Lord, Lord Albert, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Lothier, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Guelders and Württemberg, Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Artois, Burgundy, Palatine in Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, Namur and Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Lord of Frisia, Salins, Mechlin, the City, Towns and Lands of Utrecht, Overijssel and Groningen.

Many were transferred from SS headquarters to a former hotel near Meran in South Tyrol, Northern Italy, from where they were laundered and used to pay for strategic imports and German secret agents operating in the Allied countries.