Susan, you ask: Now that they have returned to Germany, are they speaking differently there than the main population? Let me tell you my experience: I grew up in the region of Germany called Schwaben and never learned Swowish (my father never used it) but Schwäbisch (the Dialect spoken hear) as well as High German (at school, radio, television, books) but when I hear people from the Banat speaking - they are often using the correct German words- I mostly realize where they are comming from, for there is a sound in their way of speaking that is very special, and I like it! What I learned in my childhood from my father were expressions like Palatschinken for panecakes, the German word would be Pfannkuchen Ribisel instead of rote Träuble / Johannisbeere (redcurrant) Karfiol instead of Blumenkohl (cauliflower) Topfen instead of Quark (curd) later I learned that this is Austrian instead of German One time in Budapest (Hungary) we were sitting in a restaurant with a menu written in Hungarian and also in "German" and a couple of Switzerland asked the waiter in German: "was ist Topfenpalatschinken?" (What is Topfenpalatschinken?) The waiter thought, he knew German and didn't understand, why they were asking so I had to help them and said: "This is Quarkpfannkuchen" and as you can imagine now they luckily understood. The waiter and the Swiss were not able to understand one and another althoughe both thought they were speaking German. Anni Gesendet: Mittwoch, 07. Mai 2014 um 16:40 Uhr Von: SusanM <soozn_6@yahoo.com> An: "DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES@rootsweb.com" <DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES@rootsweb.com> Betreff: [DVHH] Dialect Is Shwovish German very different than low German? My mother said they spoke low German, and I think it's the dialect most closely related to English. Whatever that says. And so they spoke Shwovish, did that develop in Eastern Europe, or did some people come there already speaking it? Now that they have returned to Germany, are they speaking differently there than the main population? Susan M ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message