Language
The Burgenland Croats speak Burgenland Croatian. This dialect is mutually intelligible with standard Croatian; however, Burgenland Croatian includes phrases no longer used in standard Croatian as well as certain phrases and words taken from German and Hungarian. Names are often written according to Hungarian orthography due to Magyarisation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly all Burgenland Croats are fluent in German.
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