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Language & Dialect
Published at DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr
 "Our folks in the Banat spoke "schwowisch" - Excerpts: DVHH Mail List thread referencing Danube Swabian dialect
"Schwowisch" simply means "Swabian,"
and the _correct_ German word for "Swabian" is "Schwäbisch," or "Schwaebisch"
The Banater Post published two short stories written in the schwowisch dialect
by Nikolaus Tullius (Banater Post 2013)
Sound
of Swabian & The Wenker Sentences
The
Sathmar-Swabian Dialects and Their Carriers
by Hans Gehl
Shift of Languages in the Works of Robert Reiter
(Robert
Reiter aka Franz Liebhard, b. 1899 in Temesvar)
Foreign
Words by Peter Lang
Other reading:
Die deutschen Mundarten un 1965 (The
German dialects in 1965),
Aus Kleine Enzyklopadie. Die deutsche
Sprache. I. Bd. Leipzig 1969, S. 406
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