Talk:German as a minority language

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Why are Kazakhstan Germans not discussed at greater length? ~ Dpr 22:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Official language

Two things:

  • in Ukraine, the only official language is Ukrainian.
  • in Romania, German is a language used at the local administration level in communes and cities where German ethnics are at least 30% of the population, not in the whole Transylvania. bogdan | Talk 08:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German dialects

The article talks as if all German minorities spoke Standard German. Only Riograndenser is mentioned. Don't people speak their original dialects or local blends instead of the standard? I guess more so among people with Swiss or Austrian background.

[edit] Changed the redirect here from German minorities

German minorities now redirects to Ethnic Germans

--Richard 18:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] German in the United States

Shouldn't there be some sort of reference to the 'Committee on Public Information' (CPI) which persecuted Germans and German-Americans? The article makes it sound asthough the anti-German tendency was somehow justified* and merely a byproduct of the general war effort, but in reality it was more the result of a continous campaign of propaganda and defamation aimed at Germans and even German-Americans by a governmental institution. Considering that at least one German-American was killed (perhaps more) by these whipped up mobs and plenty of others were harassed or otherwise demeaned, I think it definitely deserves mention and an apropriate link.

  • "and German-speaking Americans were regarded suspiciously as possible traitors"

But why were they? Not least because of the efforts of the CPI. The fact that German-Americans weren't mistreated or harassed in WW2 proves that those suspicions were largely unfounded and that time round this dubios honour fell to Japanese-Americans.

So, I'd definitely add a link and a line in the article, like for instance "in particular (or "not least" if you want less pov) due to the efforts of the 'Committee on Public Information' *link*."

[edit] German Language in Colombia

German in Colombia is not widely spoken as in Brazil or Argentina, but there are communities that speak it as well as immigrants who came from Germany. My family is mostly German, Spanish, and Polish and i know many people in Colombia who speak the language.

[edit] German in Argentina

1.2 million Volga Germans in Argentina? I can hardly believe that. Can anyone source this claim? Unoffensive text or character 13:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)