Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch is a Brazilian variation of the German dialect Hunsrückischen spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz). Riograndenser Hunsrückisch has been spoken and developing in Brazil for almost two hundred years and has been greatly influenced by other German dialects (such as Pomeranian or Pommersch-Platt) and also by other immigrant languages (such as Portuguese and Italian or Talian). (Talian is a uniquely Brazilian form of Italian that emerged in the Italian settled, the traditional wine producing region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.) Although Riograndenser Hunsrückisch has long been the most widely spoken German dialect in southern Brazil, like all other minority languages in the region, it is experiencing very strong decline - especially in the last three or four decades. A strong stigma has been forming around the public use of this language (as undesireble, that is) in Southern Brazil. Today it is spoken mostly in private, in family circles and by older folks and in the rural areas. It is very common for people not to admit that they know it and speak it in their most private environs.

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\n*Deutsche Minderheiten/Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (Deutsch)\n*Deutsche Welle Article/Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (Português)\n*Katharinensisch (Deutsch - out of the various titles, click on Katharinensisch)