Gottscheers

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Gottscheers

Göttscheabarə
People dressed in traditional Gottscheer costume at a folk festival in Maria Saal, Austria, 2023
Regions with significant populations
Gottschee
Languages
Gottscheerish

Gottscheers (German: Gottscheer, Slovene: Kočevarji, kočevski Nemci) are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect of German.^[1]