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Austria-Hungary by David Kay (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES; RELIGION; EDUCATION. Austria-hungary being composed of different nationalities, has also different languages and different literatures. It has t, as is the case in most other states, one national language, and one national literature. The number of distinct languages or dialects spoken in the country, exceeds twenty. German is indeed the language of the court, and of the upper classes generally, and is the language in which the great mass of the literature of the country is written. It is besides the common language of a large portion of the country, is used to some extent in almost all the large towns, and is generally understood by the educated classes in all parts of the country. To the great majority of the people, however, and in most parts of the country it is an unkwn tongue. German is the spoken language of Lower and Upper Austria, Salzburg, Middle and N. Styria, N., Middle, and W. Carinthia, N. and Middle Tyrol, also of the N.W. of Bohemia, the N. of Moravia, and Upper Silesia. There are likewise in all the provinces, isolated districts, inhabited by Germans, where the language is spoken. Altogether it is estimated to extend over 55,000 square miles. Except in some districts of Hungary and Transylvania where Low German is spoken, the language in use is the modern High German, but in different dialects. That which is most extensively and indeed generally spoken, is kwn as the Bavaria-Austrian dialect. In Vorarlberg the Swabian dialect is spoken, in the N.W. of Bohemia the Franconian, in the E. of Bohemia the Upper Saxon, and in the N. of Moravia and Upper Silesia, the - i ' Silesian. The German literature of Austria is the German literature generally. The history and present condition of the one is likewise that...

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06/02/2012
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