The Chattis were an ancient Germanic tribe. During times of the barbarian migration they came from the nowhere suddenly deciding to settle in the middle of somewhere. As Tacitus tells us they gave troubles to the Romans and some Celtic tribes. And obviously they liked the place because their progeny still is living there. And that one can only also say about the Frisians.
During centuries the region was occupied, segmented, re-assembled ... until 1946 when they decided for being the German federal state "Hessen". The development of the name from "Chatten" to "Hessen" did not need as long, we already find it in the medieval times.
Now the Chattis certainly had a kind of own language. Though as there are no written documents from them we cannot say what it was like. Nowadays besides Standard German there is to be said a hessian dialect. Local radio and tv programs make use of it. To me it seems more like a Standard German with a local touch. That does not mean that the origin of the idioms in Hessen got completely lost. More that there are more than one idiom and many local differences.
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By the way: the correct term nowadays would be "wenn de Hesse babbele". :)
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