Editing Austrian German (section)

==History==
Austrian German has its beginning in the mid-18th century, when Empress [[Maria Theresa]] and her son [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]] introduced [[compulsory education|compulsory schooling]] in 1774, and several reforms of administration in their multilingual [[Habsburg Empire]]. At the time, the written standard was ''Oberdeutsche Schreibsprache'' ([[Upper German]] written language), which was highly influenced by the [[Bavarian language|Bavarian]] and [[Alemannic dialects]] of Austria. Another option was to create a new standard based on the Southern German dialects, as proposed by the linguist [[Johann Siegmund Popowitsch]]. Instead they decided for pragmatic reasons to adopt the already-standardized [[Saxon Electoral Chancellery|chancellery]] language of [[Saxony]] (''Sächsische Kanzleisprache'' or ''Meißner Kanzleideutsch''), which was based on the administrative language of the non-Austrian area of [[Meißen]] and [[Dresden]].
Austria High German (''Hochdeutsch in Österreich'', not to be confused with the Bavarian Austria German dialects) has the same geographic origin as the [[Swiss High German]] (''Schweizer Hochdeutsch'', not to be confused with the Alemannic [[Swiss German]] dialects).

The process of introducing the new written standard was led by [[Joseph von Sonnenfels]].

Since 1951, the standardized form of Austrian German for official governmental use and in schools has been defined by the {{Lang|de|[[Österreichisches Wörterbuch]]}} ("Austrian Dictionary"), published originally at the behest of the Austrian [[Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture]] (in the 1950s the "Unterrichtsministerium", under minister Felix Hurdes) with Verlag Jugend & Volk, then by the Österreichischer Bundesverlag.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dollinger |first=Stefan |url=https://www.nid-library.com/Home/ViewBook/512/127/view |title=Österreichisches Deutsch oder Deutsch in Österreich? |publisher=New Academic Press |year=2021 |edition=3rd |location=Vienna |pages=125–128 |language=DE}}</ref>