Abstrakt
The Austrian German is a variety of the spoken and written German standard language in Austria. It differs from the German variety used in the middle and northern parts of Germany in phonetics, morphology, syntax and especially in words and their meaning.
Neither the amount of about 4 000 special expressions nor the accent allows a classification as a language of its own. The Austrian variety depends on social, dialectal and historical facts.
Its characteristic features are shortly described.