Banat Swabian dialect
| Banat Swabian | |
|---|---|
| Banat Schwäbisch | |
| Native to | Mostly Banat, Romania but also Bačka, Serbia |
| Region | Banat, southwestern Romania (as well as Central-Southwestern Europe) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Banat Swabian (German: Banatschwäbisch and also known as Donauschwäbisch) 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. In comparative linguistics, it is a West Central German dialect and it also has some features which correspond to Hessian dialects.