Rio Grande do Sul: Difference between revisions

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The first [[Germany|German]] immigrant families arrived in Rio Grande do Sul in [[1824]] at [[São Leopoldo]] town and in the following century an estimated quarter of a million [[Germans]] settled in the country, mostly in Rio Grande do Sul and the neighboring state of [[Santa Catarina]].

Most of the [[German language|German speakers]] in southern Brazil spoke or eventually adopted the [[Hunsrückisch]] [[dialect]] so that it became the most commonly used German dialect in this part of the world and still spoken by millions today (also referred to as [[Riograndenser Hunsrückisch]] to differentiateddifferentiate it from the Hunsrückisch spoken in Germany).

In its 180 years of history [[Riograndenser Hunsrückisch]] has been greatly influenced by other German dialects (such as [[Pomeranian]], [[Pfälzisch]]) and by [[immigrant languages]] such as the national language, [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] but also to some degree by [[Italian language|Italian]].