Language Austria

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the national , regional standard varieties of german language


the austrian federal states of carinthia , styria home significant indigenous slovene-speaking minority while in easternmost state, burgenland (formerly part of hungarian portion of austria–hungary), there significant hungarian- , croatian-speaking minorities. of remaining number of austria s people of non-austrian descent, many come surrounding countries, former east bloc nations. guest workers (gastarbeiter) , descendants, refugees yugoslav wars , other conflicts, form important minority group in austria. since 1994 roma–sinti (gypsies) have been officially recognised ethnic minority in austria.


according census information published statistik austria 2001 there total of 710,926 foreign nationals living in austria. of these, largest far 283,334 foreign nationals former yugoslavia (of whom 135,336 speak serbian; 105,487 croatian; 31,591 bosnian – i.e. 272,414 austrian resident native speakers in total, plus 6,902 slovenian , 4,018 macedonian speakers).


the second largest population of linguistic , ethnic groups turks (including minority of kurds) number of 200,000 300,000 live in austria. turks , kurds largest single immigrant group in austria, closely followed serbs.


the next largest population of linguistic , ethnic groups 124,392 speak german mother tongue though hail outside of austria (mainly immigrants germany, switzerland, south tyrol in italy, romania, or former soviet union); 123,417 english; 24,446 albanian; 17,899 polish; 14,699 hungarian; 12,216 romanian; 10,000 malayali; 7,982 arabic; 6,891 slovak; 6,707 czech; 5,916 persian; 5,677 italian; 5,466 russian; 5,213 french; 4,938 chinese; 4,264 spanish; 3,503 bulgarian. numbers other languages fall off sharply below 3,000.


in 2006, of austrian states introduced standardised tests new citizens, assure language ability, cultural knowledge , accordingly ability integrate austrian society. national rules, see austrian nationality law – naturalisation.








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