Swabian
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A Swabian is a native of Swabia, a place that is located in the south-west region of Germany. The Swabian dialect (please see Swabian language) is a German dialect which is closely related to other German dialects from the same region of southwest Germany: for example, Hunsrückisch, spoken in the Hunsrück region of the Rheinland-Pfalz) (and in southern Brazil), (please see Riograndenser Hunsrückisch); (also Bairisch, a Germanic language/dialect (depending who you ask), spoken in Bavaria (Bayern).
"It has been evident for a long time that, of all members of all the Germanic tribes, the Swabian is the most difficult to understand and the most mysterious. In him the most intense contradictions are found. Often, in one individual, meet both extreme boldness and amazing timidity, rebelliousness and philistinism, winning kindness and resentful standoffishness, skillfulness and awkwardness, firmness and instability, mistrust and friendliness, soaring idealism and grounded realisticism."
-Fritz Rahn
"Der schwäbische Mensch und seine Mundart" ("The Swabian person and his/her way of speaking")
Translation by Matt Carver
Immigration
There are many Swabian seattlements outside of the European continent. Including in Brazil, in South America and in Canada, in the United States, in North America.
External Links
[Bairisch (http://www.ex.ac.uk/~pjoyce/dialects/obbairis.html)] [Brazil (http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/WELT/brasil.html)]