A brief article on the Banat Swabian dialect spoken by the Banat Swabians in Banat, Romania
Banat Swabian
Banat Schwäbisch
Native to
Mostly Banat, Romania but also Bačka, Serbia[a]
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
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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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