How she changes

Hawara! Why our language is not dying right away

The two linguists Philipp Stöckle (left) and Manfred Glauninger from the Austrian Academy of Sciences know their way around language and, above all, local dialects.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com/neulandfilm)

Oida, Gspusi and co.: What is the situation with our language, are social media and migration replacing our dialects? Is the German language and its dialects dying out completely? And why do we need "our" language at all? We asked the experts!

We are born into the world with a certain language and use it as a matter of course. It is a piece of identification for all of us. Without language, human societies would be unimaginable. But language never stays the same: it can't. "There are many factors that influence language," say linguists Manfred Glauninger and Philipp Stöckle.