German-Brazilian
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| Total population | |
| c. 12,000,000 (2000) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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Southern region; slightly lesser presence in the Southeastern region |
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| Languages | |
| Predominantly Portuguese. Majority also speak Brazilian German dialects; the largest group with est. 3,000,000 native Riograndenser Hunsrückisch speakers. | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Protestantism (mainly Lutheranism) | |
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Germans, White Latin Americans White Brazilians in general, and others of European origin, such as Austrian, Swiss, Polish, Luxembourgish, French, Belgian, Dutch, Irish, Scottish, English, Scandinavian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Italian, Czech, Russian descent (Volga Germans) |
German Brazilians (German: Deutschbrasilianer, Riograndenser Hunsrückisch: Deitschbrasiliooner, Portuguese: teuto-brasileiros) refers to Brazilian people of ethnic German ancestry or origin. German Brazilians live mostly in the country's South Region, with lesser but still significant degree in the Southeast Region. German dialects together make up the second most spoken first language in Brazil after Portuguese. A few Brazilian municipalities have Brazilian Hunsrückisch and Germanic Pomeranian as co-official with Portuguese. They are located in Southern Brazil and Espírito Santo. In the year 2000 Brazilian census 12 million people in Brazil claimed to be of German descent.
Between 1824 and 1972, about 260,000 Germans settled in Brazil, the fifth largest nationality to immigrate after the Portuguese, the Italians, the Spaniards, and the Japanese.
The vast majority settled in states of São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, and Rio de Janeiro. Less than 5% of Germans settled in Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, and Espírito Santo.
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