Campina das Missões is a Brazilian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of the state of the Rio Grande do Sul, located at

latitude In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north– south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from –90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pol ...

27º59'20" S and

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54º50'22" W, being at an altitude of 163 meters. Its population estimate in 2020 was 5,398 inhabitants.

Minority language region

Like many towns in the state which were first settled by German-speaking Europeans, the

German language German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is als ...

is still present in daily family and community life, if not as much in the public sphere since

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; the regional German dialect is called

Riograndenser Hunsrückisch Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese ''Hunsrik'' or ''Hunsrückisch''), also called ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'' or ''Katharinensisch'', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German. ...

, as it is a Brazilian variant of the dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of southwest

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. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved.

References

External links

Article on Campina das Missões in the site of the National Geographic Brazil
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub

Minority language region

See also

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