A living language
Old German dialect.
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Santa Maria do Herval is a small country town in the hills of Rio Grande do Sul, near Gramado and Nova Petrópolis, which nearly all its people call «Teewald», a Hunsrik word meaning «maté forest». It is one of seventeen municipalities in Brazil where Hunsrik is an official language alongside Portuguese: a German dialect brought by nineteenth-century immigrants from the Hunsrück region, still the language of home and street for many of its people. Visitors come for the quiet of its green countryside, its houses and family farms and its rural German cooking, and to hear a rare language still alive in the heart of Brazil. It makes a short outing from Gramado or Canela.
Old German dialect.
Family farms.
A short trip.
Santa Maria do Herval, Serra Gaúcha, Rio Grande do Sul state
A German dialect brought by immigrants from the Hunsrück.