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High German and Low Saxon/German dialects and Germanic languages are particularly strong in Brazil's South and Southeast Regions. 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 ...
The main German dialect spoken in Brazil is Hunsrückisch, and according to Ammon, who visited German-speaking communities in Southern Brazil in 2004, the Hunsrik Language [43] [44] lexicon is still quite similar to that of modern German speakers, even after almost 200 years of distance.
Nevertheless, the number of people speaking any sort of German (Standard German, Hunsrückisch or East Pomeranian) is on the decrease, with 3 million speaking German as a first language today. The main variety of German in Brazil is Riograndenser Hunsrückisch which is found in the southern states.
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, [5] being widely spoken by nearly all of its population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.
Pomerode was founded by Pomeranians in 1861 and is considered the "most typically German of all German towns of southern Brazil". One very remarkable characteristic about Pomerode is the fact that 90% of its residents speak German. [4] There is also a group of people in the community who speak the East Pomeranian dialect of Low German. [5]
There are many other languages once spoken in South America that are extinct today (such as the extinct languages of the Marañón River basin). In Brazil, there are around 135 indigenous languages confirmed. The regions with the most speakers are North and Central-West Brazil, where there is a larger concentration of native people.
German Argentines (German: Deutschargentinier, Spanish: germano-argentinos) are Argentines of German ancestry as well as German citizens living in Argentina. They are descendants of Germans who immigrated to Argentina from Germany and most notably from other places in Europe such as the Volga region , Austria and the Banat .
These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol of Italy) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries have been held annually with six participants: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland: [1]