São João do Oeste is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the
state
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**Nation state, a ...
of
Santa Catarina in the
South region of
Brazil
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.
German as a regional language
The vast majority of the population inhabiting this western region of the state of Santa Catarina is bilingual, speaking both
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� ...
German dialect as well as
Portuguese, the national language. The vast majority of Riograndenser Hunsrückisch speakers, an estimated three to four million, reside and have historically lived in the neighboring state of
Rio Grande do Sul
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. There are other varieties of the
Hunsrückisch dialect that are spoken elsewhere in the state of Santa Catarina by much smaller populations: see
Antônio Carlos (Santa Catarina), a municipality where Hunsrückisch is a co-official language.
See also
*
List of municipalities in Santa Catarina
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Santa Catarina (SC), located in the South Region of Brazil. Santa Catarina is divided into 295 municipalities
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References
Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state)
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