It is Austrian German, the national variety of German, which is the native language of 88.6% of the population. Six national minorities recognized by Austria live mainly in the south of the country: Croats, Slovaks, Slovenians, Czechs, Hungarians, and Roma. Therefore, there are regional official minority languages there: Croatian (Burgenland-Croatian, spoken by approximately 19.5 thousand inhabitants of Burgenland), Slovenian and Hungarian.
