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Very few non-Amish members of these people can speak the Pennsylvania German language, although most know some words and phrases. The World War II generation of the mid-20th century was the last generation in which Pennsylvania Dutch was widely spoken outside the Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities. [1]
Pennsylvania Dutch (Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch ⓘ or Pennsilfaanisch) or Pennsylvania German is a variety of Palatine German [ 3 ] spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States and Canada. There are approximately 300,000 native speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch language is based on German dialects which have been significantly influenced by English, primarily in terms of vocabulary. Based on dialect features, Pennsylvania Dutch can be classified as a variety of Rhine Franconian, with the Palatine German dialects being most closely related. [ 23 ][ 24 ] The language is both ...
Scots-Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Polish, [3] Ukrainian [4] and Croatian [5] immigrants to the area all provided certain loanwords to the dialect (see "Vocabulary" below). Many of the sounds and words found in the dialect are popularly thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, but that is a misconception since the dialect resides throughout the greater part of western Pennsylvania and the surrounding ...
The 30th volume of the Pennsylvania German Society, published in 1924, was a dictionary prepared by Marcus B. Lambert and entitled A Dictionary of the Non-English Words of the Pennsylvania-German Dialect, With an Appendix. It was the first Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary of the modern era.
Bacon gravy. Chicken and waffles. Chicken corn soup—made with egg noodles and sometimes saffron, which has been cultivated in Pennsylvania Dutch country since the early 19th century; egg noodles, corn, hard boiled eggs, and chicken. [1] Sometimes an addition is rivels, small dumplings. Chow-chow.
t. e. Jersey Dutch, [2][3][4] also known as Bergen Dutch, [5] was a Dutch dialect formerly spoken in northeastern New Jersey from the late 17th century until the early 20th century. [6] It evolved in one of the two Dutch -speaking enclaves that remained for over two centuries after the dissolution of Dutch control in North America, the other ...
Pages in category "Pennsylvania Dutch language". The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Pennsylvania Dutch language.