Hello Danube Swabian Researchers, All of us on this list know what "Swowish" stands for (Schwäbisch - a Germanic dialect). Some of us still speak it also. But did you know that today there is such a thing as: Belgrano - Argentinean-German dialect; Texas-German; Mokra-German - Ukraine-German dialect; Kitchen-German - Namibia-German dialect; Our-German - a Papua-Neuguinea German dialect; See www.magazine-deutschland.de See you all in Mt. Angel, Rosina www.hrastovac.net