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3 unusual facts about Swabian German


Hunsrückisch dialect

Throughout its almost 200-year history in Southern Brazil and Espírito Santo, Hunsrückisch has been greatly influenced by other German dialects such as Pomeranian, Swabian, and Austro-Bavarian, by other immigrant languages, and by Portuguese.

Swabian German

In 2009 Muggeseggele, literally referring to the scrotum of a male housefly, was elected in a readers survey of Stuttgarter Nachrichten, the largest newspaper in Stuttgart as most beautiful Swabian word, with a large lead on any other expression.

SWR kids website explained Muggeseggele in their Swabian dictionary for the TV series Ein Fall für B.A.R.Z., which takes place in Fellbach.



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