Missões, Brazil is a region of

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roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Saint Roque González. The ''Missões'' region is located in the northwestern part of the state and is part of a larger missions' settlement system, extending into

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, and other neighboring countries. Which in turn were part of a larger project, the

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The majority of present population of the ''Missões'' region first began to arrive in this area starting only over one hundred years ago. Therefore, about three centuries after the original historical

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missions had long vanished and what had been left of the native Christianized population had dispersed, reverting into their traditional semi-nomadic way of living. The more recent settlements, in great part by transplanted by Europeans from old settlements on the eastern part of the state, brought with them their minority immigrant languages which are still in use today in greater or lesser extent throughout the countryside, in hamlets, towns and municipalities.

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is by far being the most commonly found

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in this region, it specifically the home of the

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LEI 14.061 - DECLARA INTEGRANTE DO PATRIMÔNIO HISTÓRICO E CULTURAL DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL A “LÍNGUA HUNSRIK”, DE ORIGEM GERMÂNICA
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. The municipality of Guarani das Missões was settled primarily by Polish immigrants, and the town still maintains its cultural and linguistic roots. Campina das Missões is a municipality where the majority of its population has German background, however a substantial percentage of the inhabitants are descendant of

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n immigrants.''Centenário da Igreja Ortodoxa Russa no Brasil'' (27.10.2013). ''O Estrangeiro: Brasil, país de imigração'' (oestrangeiro.org). Laboratório de Comunicação Social Aplicada da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (LACOSA-UFRJ); e Programa de Educação Tutorial da Escola de Comunicação da UFRJ (PET-ECO)
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and German are spoken locally as regional languages.

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Geography of Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub

Minority languages

See also

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