Editing Regensburg (section)

===Dialect===
Although the [[German language]] is Germany's official language, Regensburg is considered a part of the [[Bavarian dialect]] language area (''{{lang|de|bairischer Sprachraum}}'') which encompasses much of [[Bavaria]], Austria, and the [[South Tyrolean]] region of northern [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Oberösterreich im bairischen Sprachraum |url=https://stifterhaus.at/index.php?id=123 |website=StifterHaus |publisher=Adalbert-Stifter-Institut des Landes Oberösterreich |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> More specifically, the dialect attributed to Regensburg is called [[Central Bavarian]] (''{{lang|de|Mittelbairisch}}'').<ref>{{cite web |title=Z' Rengschbuag redt ma anderscht |url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/bayern/dialekt/z-rengschbuag-redt-ma-anderscht-21710-art811855.html |website=Mittelbayerische |date=26 July 2012 |publisher=Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> A 2019 report estimates that about half of Bavaria's 12 million inhabitants speak a variation of the Bavarian dialect.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holtmeyer |first1=Annette |title=Bairisch – Vom Aussterben bedrohter Dialekt? |url=https://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/brauchtum/bayerische_traditionen/bairisch-dialekt-100.html |website=planet wissen |date=23 July 2019 |publisher=Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref>

The first dictionary of a German dialect was Johann Ludwig Prasch's ''{{lang|de|Glossarium Bavaricum}}''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Johann Andreas Schmellers "Bayerisches Wörterbuch" (Bavarian Dictionary) |url=https://schmeller.badw.de/en/the-project.html |website=schmeller.badw.de |publisher=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref> Published in Regensburg in 1689, it contains 500 words from the Bavarian variation spoken in Regensburg.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zehetner |first1=Ludwig |title=Das bairische Dialektbuch |date=1985 |publisher=C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |location=München |isbn=3406305628 |page=211 |edition=1 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11554291.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109134248/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11554291.pdf |archive-date=2017-11-09 |url-status=live |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Prasch |first1=Johann Ludwig |title=Glossarium Bavaricum |url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10888807?page=5 |website=Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital |publisher=Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> Regensburg's ''Bauerntheater'', a type of farmers' or folk theater, has staged plays delivered in Bavarian for over 90 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Das Regenburger Bauerntheater - Hubertushöhe |url=https://www.regensburg-bayern.de/kultur/theater-kleinkunstbuehnen/bauerntheater/ |website=Urlaubserlebnis |publisher=regensburg-bayern.de |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> Moreover, premiering in 2011, Joseph Berlinger's play "Mei Fähr Lady", a story about three "students" taking a crash course in Bavarian dialect, has been performed at Regensburg's Turmtheater over 300 times.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mei Fähr Lady |url=https://www.regensburgerturmtheater.de/mei-faehr-lady/ |website=Turmtheater Regensburg |date=9 July 2015 |publisher=Kulturturm Regensburg e.V. |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref> In fact, the role of the dialect professor is played by Ludwig Zehetner, professor emeritus in Bavarian dialectology at University of Regensburg. Manfred Rohm, whose pen name Sepp Grantelhauer takes on the Bavarian verb ''{{lang|de|granteln}}'' for "to complain", writes a weekly satirical column solely in Bavarian for the ''{{lang|de|Regensburger Rundschau}}''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Regensburger Rundschau |url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/anzeigen/rundschau/ |website=Rundschau ePaper |publisher=Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG |access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref>