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Upper Swabian dialect of Satu Mare, Romania
Sathmar Swabian
Schwǫbisch
RegionSatu Mare
EthnicitySatu Mare Swabians
Native speakersc. 200
Language familyIndo-European
Writing systemGerman alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
IETFswg-u-sd-rosm

Sathmar Swabian (endonym: Schwǫbisch, Romanian: Șvabă sătmăreană or dialectul șvăbesc sătmărean, Hungarian: szatmári sváb) is an Upper Swabian dialect of High German spoken in Romania in Satu Mare (German: Sathmar) and Satu Mare County, north-western Transylvania by the Sathmar Swabians (German: Sathmarer Schwaben), who are among the few Danube Swabians who are in fact truly Swabian in origin. Many speakers now live in Germany but some remain in northwestern Transylvania, Romania, more specifically in Satu Mare County (German: Kreis Sathmar).

Sample words

Sathmar Swabian Swabian in Germany Standard German English
i i, e ich I
du du du you (singular)
mir, mr wir we
dees des dies this
daß daß dass that (conjunction)
wear wer we
wa, waa was what
it (itt, itte) ed, it, ita nicht not
alles älles, (alles) alles everything (all)
vie viel many

References

  1. ^ Kommission Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage. "Sathmar Swabian". Austrian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  2. Helmut Berner, Die Mundart der Sathmarer Schwaben nebst einigen ihrer Besonderheiten Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. words from: Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

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