Brazilian German is a generic name for German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 dialect

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

s spoken in the southern States of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 (mainly Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina (state)

Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...

 and Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

).

German dialects are in use in Brazil as a result of German settlements, made by Germans

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Swiss

Switzerland

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, and Austria

Austria

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ns. These dialects evolved through foreign borrowings. They were influenced by other German dialects, other immigrant languages — especially Talian

Talian

Talian is a dialect spoken mainly in the wine-producing area of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Talian is sometimes called Vêneto ...

, and Brazil's national language, Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

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The most commonly spoken Brazilian German dialect is Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch , spoken in parts of Brazil, is a Brazilian West Germanic language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of the German Language....

, a Brazilian variation of the Hunsrückisch

Hunsrückisch

Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany . This mountainous region of Germany has long been an exporter of immigrants to the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and other parts of the world....

 dialect. But other dialects of German are also spoken in Brazil, such as:

• The Austrian dialect spoken in Dreizehnlinden
  Treze Tílias
  Treze Tílias is a municipality located in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The municipality covers about 185.205 km² and sits about 470 km from the state capital, Florianópolis. The municipality population estimate for 2006 is 5,441. The municipality was originally created on...
  
  
• Danube Swabian (Donauschwowsch, German: Donauschwäbisch).
• Pomeranian
  East Pomeranian
  East Pomeranian is an East Low German dialect that is or used to be spoken in Northern Poland . It is part of the Pommersch dialect group....
  
   or Pommersch.
• Plautdietsch
  Plautdietsch
  Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, was originally a Low Prussian variety of East Low German, with Dutch influence, that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia, today Polish territory. The word is another pronunciation of Plattdeutsch, or Low German...
  
   spoken by ethnic German
  Ethnic German
  Ethnic Germans historically also ), also collectively referred to as the German diaspora, refers to people who are of German ethnicity. Many are not born in Europe or in the modern-day state of Germany or hold German citizenship...
  
   Mennonites from the former Soviet Union.

Cities that have Pomeranian language as official

Espírito Santo

• Pancas
  Pancas, Espírito Santo
  Pancas is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Espírito Santo. Its population was 20,025 and its area is 824 km².It is situated on a tributary of the Doce River, in the northwest of the state. Locally it is known as a good spot for paragliding...
  
  
• Santa Maria de Jetibá
• Vila Pavão

Santa Catarina

• Pomerode
  Pomerode
  Pomerode is a Brazilian city in the state of Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil. It is located in the valley of the Itajaí-Açu river, not very far from the city of Blumenau, one of the largest cities in the state....
  
  

Rio Grande do Sul

• Canguçu
  Canguçu
  Canguçu is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil....
  
   (under approval)

Cities that have Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language as official

Santa Catarina

• Antônio Carlos
  Antônio Carlos, Santa Catarina
  Antônio Carlos, Santa Catarina is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  

Rio Grande do Sul

• Santa Maria do Herval
  Santa Maria do Herval
  -See also:*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul...
  
   (under approval)

See also

• German Brazilian
  German Brazilian
  A German Brazilian is a Brazilian person of ethnic German ancestry or origin...
  
  s
• Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
  Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
  Riograndenser Hunsrückisch , spoken in parts of Brazil, is a Brazilian West Germanic language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of the German Language....
  
  
• German language in the United States
  German in the United States
  Around 1.38 million Americans speak German. It is the second most spoken language in two states: North Dakota and South Dakota.In the United States, German is third in popularity after Spanish and French in terms of the number of colleges and universities offering instruction in the language.-...