Salvador das Missões

Salvador das Missões is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Like many towns in the state which were first settled by German-speaking Europeans, the German language is still present in daily family and community life, if not as much in the public sphere since World War II; the regional German dialect is called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, as it is a Brazilian variant of the dialekt spoken in the Hunsrück region of southwest Germany. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved.

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Coordinates: 28°7′33″S 54°50′6″W / 28.12583°S 54.83500°W / -28.12583; -54.83500

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