Talk:Hunsrückisch

I'm not sure if Hunsrückisch is part of the Moselle Franconian group of dialects or if it is part of the the Rhine Franconian group. So I just left it as west Middle German. They are arguing about it at de:Diskussion:Hunsrückisch

I started the "Features" section to give an idea of some of the characteristics of Hunsrückisch, and went as far as I could without going into personal research. Unfortunately that wasn't very far. Ireneshusband 09:20, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Teaching German, Polish, Italian

It must be noted that Hunsruekisch is a Plattdeutsche dialect - not Hochsdeutsche. So, teaching "German" in schools in Rio Grande do Sul is not the same as teaching "regional" or "local" languages. The same applies to Italian and Talian. Talian is a variant of Venetian, not of Italian. Much less it is merely the name of the Italian language in Rio Grande do Sul. The terms cannot be used interchangeably as is done in the article. Donadio (talk) 17:45, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brazil and Hunsruekisch

It is extremely odd that an article about Hunsruekisch needs to make statements about ethnicity in Brazil (wrong statements by the way; since when does speaking a language that is not even standard German gives people a "German identity"?) Even more odd that it has a sentence about English being taught as a second language in Brazil. English is not Hunsruekisch, nor related to it besides the fact that both are Germanic lnaguages. What is it doing in this article? Donadio (talk) 11:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]