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Hunsrückisch

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thumb|Wenn der Rapp bleht in Piddaschwald, a poem in the dialect of Peterswald-Löffelscheid Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate). This mountainous region of Germany has long been an exporter of emigrants to Brazil, United States, Canada, Australia and other parts of the world.

Key facts

Language.name
Hunsrückisch
Language.states
Germany
Language.region
Hunsrück region, Rhineland-Palatinate
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Germanic
Language.fam3
West Germanic
Language.fam4
High German
Language.fam5
Central German
Language.fam6
Rhenish Franconian / Moselle Franconian
Language.isoexception
dialect
Language.script
Latin (German alphabet)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
dialect
Subclass of
Central German
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Commons category
Hunsrückisch
writing system
Latin script
language of work or name
German
dialect of
German
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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • Geographical distribution
  • Germany
  • Brazil
  • Features
  • Phonology
  • Grammar
  • Gender
  • Tenses
  • Cases
  • Plural Formation
  • Regionalisms
  • Other influences
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Wenn der Rapp bleht in Piddaschwald, a poem in the dialect of Peterswald-Löffelscheid Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate). This mountainous region of Germany has long been an exporter of emigrants to Brazil, United States, Canada, Australia and other parts of the world.

Hunsrückisch was spoken in Edgar Reitz's acclaimed television series Heimat.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hunsrückisch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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