Banat Swabian dialect

Banat Swabian
Banat Schwäbisch
Native toMostly Banat, Romania but also Bačka, Serbia
RegionBanat, 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.