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Banat Swabian dialect

Banat Swabian
Banat Schwäbisch
Native toMostly Banat, Romania but also Bačka, Serbia[a]
RegionBanat, southwestern Romania (as well as Central-Southwestern Europe)
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Banat Swabian (German: Banatschwäbisch and also known as Donauschwäbisch)[1] 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.[2] In comparative linguistics, it is a West Central German dialect and it also has some features which correspond to Hessian dialects.[3]


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  1. ^ "Sprachinseln in Europa: Das Donauschwäbisch oder Banatschwäbisch". 28 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  2. ^ "East European Germans". NDSU - North Dakota State University. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  3. ^ Hans Gehl. "Donauschwäbische Dialekte". Sulinet.hu (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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