Campina das Missões is a Brazilian

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

of the state of the

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, ; ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, fifth-most populous state and the List of Brazilian s ...

, located at

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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

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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 ''Hunsrik'' , ''Hunsrückisch'' or ''Hunsrickisch'' and Portuguese ''hunsriqueano'' or ''hunsriqueano riograndense''), also called Riograndese Hunsrik, ' or ', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsr� ...

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

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...

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

References

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