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Dialect comparison

Bairisch vs Hunsrik

Compare two dialects of German side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Bairisch

Bavarian · Bavarian-Austrian

A large Upper German dialect group spoken across Bavaria and most of Austria, with distinctive vowel shifts and vocabulary far removed from Standard German.

Approximate centre
48.14°, 11.57°
Hunsrik

Brazilian German · Riograndenser Hunsrückisch · Hunsrückisch

A German-derived minority variety spoken by descendants of nineteenth-century settlers in southern Brazil, especially Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná. It descends mainly from Hunsrück Franconian and has developed under long contact with Brazilian Portuguese.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
-29.68°, -51.13°

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