For the people group of Brazilians with German ancestry, see German Brazilians.
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"Native speakers: 4,500,000[1]" - the reference is only for Hunsrik (hrx)
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Brazilian German
Native to
Brazil
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Elbe Germanic and North Sea Germanic
High and Low German
Brazilian German
Writing system
Latin script (German alphabet)
German Braille
Official status
Official language in
Brazil[2][3]
17 municipalities
Antônio Carlos
Santa Maria do Herval
Domingos Martins
Itarana
Laranja da Terra
Pancas
Santa Maria de Jetibá
Vila Pavão
Itueta
Espigão d'Oeste
Pomerode
Canguçu
Ipumirim
Treze Tílias
Barão
Westfália
São João do Oeste
Language codes
ISO 639-3
(partially included in pdt (Plautdietsch), hrx (Hunsrik), nds (Low German, more specifically East Pomeranian in Brazil))
The (Low)German-based varieties spoken by German Brazilians together form a significant minority language in Brazil. "Brazilian German" is strongly influenced by Portuguese and to a lesser extent by Italian dialects as well as indigenous languages. High German and Low Saxon/German dialects and Germanic languages are particularly strong in Brazil's South and Southeast Regions. According to Ethnologue, ca. 3 million people in Brazil speak the Hunsrik Language, 1.5 million speak Standard German.[citation needed]
German speakers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria make up the largest group of immigrants after Portuguese and Italian speakers. They tended to preserve their language longer than the speakers of Italian, which is closer to Portuguese. Consequently, German and Low Saxon/German was the second most common family language in Brazil at the 1940 census. However, even in areas that are still dominated by German speakers, most are bilingual. Today, (Low-) German is increasingly cultivated as a cultural heritage, and several municipalities have recently given co-official status with Portuguese to one Brazilian variant or another of it.
The language Hunsrik or Riograndenser Hunsrückisch is the most significant variant. It is particularly well represented in the two southernmost states, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. But especially in Espírito Santo there are significant pockets whose dialect is based on East Low German (East Pomeranian),[4][3] and some other dialects can be found locally due to 20th century immigration.
^Hunsrik, Ethnologue (2016).
^"IPOL realizará formação de recenseadores para o censo linguístico do município de Antônio Carlos-SC - IPOL". e-ipol.org.
^ ab"Pommern in Brasilien - LernCafe – Online-Journal zur allgemeinen Weiterbildung". www.lerncafe.de. Archived from the original on 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
^[1] Archived November 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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