Banat Swabian dialect
A brief article on the Banat Swabian dialect spoken by the Banat Swabians in Banat, Romania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banat Swabian (German: Banatschwäbisch and also known as Donauschwäbisch)[1] is a local German dialect spoken in Banat, present-day southwestern Romania by the Banat Swabians (German: Banater Schwaben), an ethnic German sub-group which is part of the larger German minority of Romania and a branch of the Danube Swabians respectively.[2] In comparative linguistics, it is a West Central German dialect and it also has some features which correspond to Hessian dialects.[3]