Hunsrik | Ethnologue

A language of Brazil

ISO 639: hrx
Alternate Names: Hunsrick, Hunsrickisch, Hunsriker, Hunsriqueano, Hunsriqueano Riograndense, Hunsrück, Katharinensisch, Rio Grand Hunsriker
Autonym: Hunsrik, Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
Population: 3,000,000 in Brazil. Ethnic population: 5,000,000 (2021 Joshua Project).
Location:: Widespread. Many in Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina states.
Language Status: 7 (Shifting).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German
Dialects: Originally derived from Hunsrücker (Westpfälzisch) German speech variety; influenced by Portuguese [por]. Several dialects, probably due to being language of intercommunication for many other Germanic language speakers such as Swabian [swg], Bavarian [bar] and others as well as immigrants from Switzerland and Austria.
Language Use: Officially minimized until the 2000s when it began to be recognized as a language and written with a standardized Latin alphabet. Home, market. Positive attitudes. Shifting to Portuguese [por].
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Hunsrik
Writing: Latin script [Latn].
Other Comments: Emigrated from Germany from 1824 more or less continuously until World War II.

Location: Widespread. Many in Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina states.