 Many residents actively practice their German cultural heritage, and some still speak the local form of the German dialect, Shwovish.This dialect is a mixture of old German from the eighteenth century with many Magyar and Serbo-Croatian words, similar to what was spoken in Yugoslavia before the Second World War.In Croatia around 2,800 people identify themselves as part of the German and Austrian Minority, the majority of whom are Danube Swabians.