Schwabo
The word Schwabo ( Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian Švabo / Швабо , in Serbia Švaba ) is a colloquial term used in the former Yugoslavia for all German speakers.
The name is derived from the Danube Swabians , the German-speaking minority who lived in Slavonia , the Batschka and the Banat from the 18th century to the Second World War . In these multiethnic areas, the Swabians settled alongside Croats, Hungarians, Serbs and Romanians. Danube Swabian villages existed right up to the gates of Belgrade . Over time, the term "Schwabe" became commonplace as pars pro toto for all German speakers, regardless of whether they were actually Danube Swabians or came from other German-speaking areas of the Habsburg monarchy .
Today the term “Schwabo” is mostly used by immigrants from the former Yugoslavia for all German speakers, regardless of whether they are Austrians, German or German-speaking Swiss. This colloquial term can have a cheerful and ironic meaning, but it can also be meant derogatory ( ethnophaulism ) and thus represents the counterpart to the terms Yugo or Tschusch , which are used in a similar way by the inhabitants of these target countries for immigrants from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia used.
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- ↑ Robert Cyprien: The Slavs of Turkey, or the Montenegrins, Serbians, Bosniaks, Albanians and Bulgarians , Volume 2, p. 80 , 1844
- ↑ "I didn't know myself that I was a Schwabo". Interview with the editor-in-chief of the migration magazine Das Biber Simon Kravagna. In: Der Standard , January 23, 2009
- ↑ Alexandra Stanic: Svabo or Tschusch - what now? , October 21, 2010
- ↑ The Schwabo. In: Die Presse , January 11, 2013
- ↑ Schwabo. In: ostarrichi.org - Language in Austria