Bavarian (German: Bairisch [ˈbaɪrɪʃ]) is a West Germanic language spoken in parts of Bavaria and most of Austria. Before 1945, Bavarian was also prevalent in parts of the southern Czech Republic and western Hungary. Bavarian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants. Its mutual intelligibility with Standard German is very limited, but most of its speakers can code-switch to Standard German.