Is Bavarian an official language of Bavaria? Are children taught in Bavarian most of their classes, are laws published in Bavarian, are movies released in Bavarian?
It also seems like children aren’t taught in school in Bavarian, which makes quite a difference about passing the language to the newer generations and people who don’t speak it at home.
I’m not saying that the number of speakers isn’t a good reason, more that different languages are used in different context. Someone in Catalunya could live their own lives only in Catalan. Not sure if that’s possible with Bavarian in Bavaria.
Is Bavarian an official language of Bavaria? Are children taught in Bavarian most of their classes, are laws published in Bavarian, are movies released in Bavarian?
All of these are true for Catalan.
So, you’re saying the number of speakers alone is not a good reason?
Is there a movement in Bavaria to get the language recognized as an EU language?
From what I’ve read, Bavarian seems to be mostly used for spoken communication, not written.
The Bavarian wikipedia project has 27k articles: https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hoamseitn
The Catalan one has 774k: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portada
There is a TV channel in Catalan (https://www.3cat.cat/tv3/), and several newspapers written in that language (https://www.elnacional.cat/)
I couldn’t find anything similar for Bavarian. https://www.br.de/index.html seems to be in German.
It also seems like children aren’t taught in school in Bavarian, which makes quite a difference about passing the language to the newer generations and people who don’t speak it at home.
I’m not saying that the number of speakers isn’t a good reason, more that different languages are used in different context. Someone in Catalunya could live their own lives only in Catalan. Not sure if that’s possible with Bavarian in Bavaria.