Banat Swabian dialect

Banat Swabian
Banat Swabian
Banat Schwäbisch
Native to	Mostly Banat, Romania but also Bačka, Serbia
Region	Banat, southwestern Romania (as well as Central-Southwestern Europe)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic High German Central German West Central German Central Franconian Moselle Franconian Banat Swabian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Banat Swabian (German: Banatschwäbisch and also known as Donauschwäbisch) is a local German dialect spoken in Banat, present-day southwestern Romania by the Banat Swabians (German: Banater Schwaben), an ethnic German sub-group which is part of the larger German minority of Romania and a branch of the Danube Swabians respectively. In comparative linguistics, it is a West Central German dialect and it also has some features which correspond to Hessian dialects.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.