Minority languages in Austria
The minority languages in Austria include all languages in Austria in addition to the state language in Art. 8 para. 1 Federal Constitution stipulated German language are spoken. Some of them are specially protected by law and also recognized as an official language in some federal states .
| State language | Number of speakers |
|---|---|
| German | 7,115,780 |
| Recognized minority languages |
Number of speakers |
| Hungarian | 40,583 |
| Slovenian | 24,855 |
| Burgenland Croatian | 19,412 |
| Czech | 17,742 |
| Slovak | 10,234 |
| Romani | 6,273 |
|
Austrian sign language |
9,000 |
| Other languages (more than 10,000 speakers) |
Number of speakers |
| Serbo-Croatian | 343.484 |
| Turkish | 183,445 |
| English | 58,582 |
| Polish | 30,598 |
| Albanian | 28,212 |
| Arabic | 17,592 |
| Romanian | 16,885 |
| Italian | 10,742 |
| Persian | 10,665 |
| French | 10.190 |
|
Indicated colloquial language of the Austrian resident population; census 2001 |
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Recognized minority languages of Austria
Burgenland Croatian , Romani , Slovak , Slovenian , Czech and Hungarian are in accordance with Art. 8 2 Federal Constitution para. The constitutionally protected languages of indigenous minorities in Austria after the National Minorities Act (recorded part later) from 1976. The recognition of the minority rights of the Burgenland Croats , the Carinthian Slovenes and the Slovenes in Styria (and thus also the recognition of their languages) is laid down in Article 7 of the State Treaty of 1955 . The recognition of the Hungarian language in four municipalities in Burgenland resulted from the official language regulation for Hungarian issued on the basis of the National People's Group Act. The Burgenlandroma , Lovara and Sinti were only included in the national minority law in 1993.
In addition, the Austrian sign language, as the language of a non-ethnic minority, has been a recognized minority language since September 1, 2005 with constitutional status ( Art. 8 Paragraph 3 B-VG) .
A large number of speakers of other languages, especially Turkish and the languages of the former Yugoslavia , who are also Austrian citizens, have their center of life in Austria, but their languages are not subject to minority protection law and are therefore not taken into account in schools . Other minority languages and idioms of autochthonous groups in Austria such as the so-called Windisch (the Slovenian dialects in Carinthia and Styria) or the Yenish were not placed under the protection of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages.
Regulations on the official and language of instruction
In addition to the German language, Croatian and Slovenian are official languages in some judicial districts of Styria, Burgenland and Carinthia, and Hungarian in four municipalities: Oberpullendorf (Felsőpulya), Oberwart (Felsőőr), in Rotenturm an der Pinka the district of Siget in der Wart (Őrisziget) and in the municipality of Unterwart the district of Unterwart (Alsóőr) of Burgenland. The minorities in certain regions are entitled to mother tongue tuition .
Sign language users throughout Austria have the right to use ÖGS in official and judicial matters and the right to an interpreter . There are no regulations for lessons.
Regulations on topographical markings
In places with a certain number of members of autochthonous ethnic groups, topographical inscriptions are to be affixed in two languages. These rights, detailed in the national minorities law from 1976, were fully implemented in Burgenland in 2000, only partially in Carinthia and not at all in Styria. Due to a ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2001, which repealed parts of this national minority law as unconstitutional, additional bilingual topographical inscriptions would have to be added both in Burgenland and in Carinthia (see local sign dispute ).
See also
- Use of language in Austria
- Demography of Austria
- Roman - the language of the Burgenland Roma , songs of Lovara , Slovene field and farm names in Carinthia , Austrian sign language - the traditions of the recognized linguistic minorities, which are recognized as an intangible UNESCO cultural heritage
- Russian-speaking population groups in Austria
Web links
- Colloquial languages in Austria (2001 census) , Statistics Austria (PDF file)
- 2001 population by colloquial language, nationality and country of birth , Statistics Austria (PDF file; 41 kB)
- Colloquial language 2001: Burgenland-Croatian by municipality , graphics, Statistics Austria (PDF file; 530 kB)
- Colloquial language 2001: Slovenian by municipality , graphic, Statistics Austria (PDF file; 538 kB)
- Colloquial language 2001: Hungarian by municipality , graphic, Statistics Austria (PDF file; 646 kB)
- Ethnic group report 200.1 Demokratiezentrum.org (PDF file; 608 kB)
- Gerhard Baumgartner, Bernhard Perchinig: Minorities in Austria. A summary. Ethnic minorities - The Austrian ethnic groups. Minority policy in Austria - the policy of the Austrian minorities . Online article at minderheiten.at.
- Entry on minority languages in Austria in the Austria Forum (as postage stamp display)
- European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (PDF file)
Media in Austrian minority languages:
- Volksgruppen.orf.at - platform of the political mandate of the ORF
- dROMa - bilingual magazine in German and Romani
- dROMa blog - editorially supervised weblog on Roma topics (German and Romani)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see also: Albanians in Austria
- ↑ https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFnahm.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10000602
- ↑ a b minorities (politics). Democracyzentrum.org (accessed March 31, 2016).
- ↑ Around 40,000 Roma and Sinti live in Austria. medienservicestelle.at, undated (accessed January 29, 2019).