Hunsrik

Hunsrik ( Bras . Port. Hunsriqueano riograndense ), Riograndenser Hunsrück or Katharinensisch is a widespread minority language of the German immigrants in southern Brazil . It is a variant of the Hunsrück dialect spoken in parts of the Hunsrück (around Morbach , Idar-Oberstein , Rheinböllen , Simmern and Kastellaun ) .

origin

Hunsrik has developed in almost 200 years, since the beginning of German immigration from the Hunsrück by ship to Porto Alegre in certain southern regions of the Empire of Brazil - in particular in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (at that time also the Republic of Piratini for a certain time ) - in 1824 as the language of these immigrants. It was influenced by other German immigrant dialects , such as East Pomeranian , Bavarian and Austrian dialects (today especially in Dreizehnlinden ), as well as Portuguese and other immigrant languages such as Italian .

Although Hunsrik was the most widespread German dialect in southern Brazil for a long time, the use of this language - especially in the last three to four generations - continues to decline. This is also due to the suppression of the German language during the Second World War ; The use of the German language in public was forbidden at the time, which meant that the younger generation learned Portuguese as their first language . Today, Hunsrück is spoken almost exclusively in private circles and by the older rural population in some language islands .

For the Hunsrück German in Rio Grande do Sul, Cléo Vilson Altenhofen introduced the term Riograndenser Hunsrückisch in 1996 . The term Katharinensisch is derived from the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina , where this dialect first appeared.

literature

Erich Fausel: The German-Brazilian language mix. Problems, process and vocabulary . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1959, DNB 451217063 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Directory: German / Riograndenser Hunsrückisch - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Directory: German / Hunsrück dialect - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Test Wikipedia in Riograndenser Hunsrückisch

Wikisource: Der Abschied (Rottmann) - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ hrx | ISO 639-3. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
↑ Hunsrik. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
^ Paula Doenecke: Hunsrückisch in the south of Latin America. In: faz.net. July 12, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
↑ Cléo Vilson Altenhofen u. a .: Fundamentos para uma escrito do Hunsrück falado no Brasil. In Revista Contingentia , ISSN 1980-7589 , Volume 2, 2007, pp. 73-87 (accessed on February 21, 2016; Portuguese).

[1] hrx | ISO 639-3. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .

[2] Hunsrik. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .

[3] Paula Doenecke: Hunsrückisch in the south of Latin America. In: faz.net. July 12, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .

[4] Cléo Vilson Altenhofen u. a .: Fundamentos para uma escrito do Hunsrück falado no Brasil. In Revista Contingentia , ISSN 1980-7589 , Volume 2, 2007, pp. 73-87 (accessed on February 21, 2016; Portuguese).