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Examples for differing vocabulary in Austrian Standard German When you finish high school you make the "Matura" (general qualification for university entrance). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In schools in Austria will now teach the subject "Austrian German" who will lie mostly vocabulary of the language, which gradually died out because of the influence of the media.

German German threatens the existence of the Austrian and German must take care to preserve their words, explain the authors of the new textbooks.

For example, fewer children and young people use the typical Austrian greeting "Servuz" and preferred the German "Chus".

"What you hear in the movies, on television or on the internet is produced in neighboring Germany and thus sync there, so the impact of the German German becomes stronger," said Minister of Education Gabriele Heinrich-Hozek.

She urged teachers to use in class mostly typical Austrian words and distribute the "equal and independent Austrian version of the German".

As a mandatory time in school also introduced the game "Memory". Playing cards will be displayed different concepts of literary German, Swiss German and Austrian German and so children will learn to distinguish them from each other.

Austrian German has not only its own vocabulary, but there are grammatical peculiarities. Especially in the use of the past.

Petition against the intention of the Ministry, signed none other than representatives of the Austrian traditional school who think German German for honest.