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The language was also formerly spoken in the outer areas of what is now the city-state of Berlin, but in the course of urbanisation and national centralisation in that city, the language has vanished (the Berlin dialect itself is a northern outpost of High German, though it has some Low German features).
Today, Plautdietsch is spoken in two major dialects that trace their division to what is now Ukraine. These two dialects are split between Chortitza Colony and Molotschna. Today, many younger Russian Mennonites in Canada and the United States speak only English.
Texas German is a dialect spoken in the areas of Texas settled by the Adelsverein, such as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg. In the Amana Colonies in the state of Iowa, Amana German is spoken. Plautdietsch is a large minority language spoken in Northern Mexico by the Mennonite communities, and is spoken by more than 200,000 people in Mexico.
Currently 1.1 million American citizens speak German, with the most being in the Dakotas. [17] German was at one time the lingua franca in many American regions, with high density in the Midwest, but St. Louis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City and a great many others cities had a very high German-speaking population. By 1900, over 554 ...
Low German is a Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and in Northeastern Netherlands. East Low German, a group of dialects spoken in north-eastern Germany and northern Poland; Mennonite Low German, a language or group of dialects spoken by Mennonites; Middle Low German, a language spoken from about 1100 to 1600
Of these all are official except Plattdeutsch. There are 8 official languages spoken by between 1,000 and 8,000 people each. So of the 37 languages declared official by the constitution of 2009, 23 are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people and 2 are extinct (puquina and machajuyai-kallawaya). [citation needed]
Paraguay : 166,000 Standard German-speakers (including 18,000 Mennonites, who don't speak Plattdeutsch or Mennonite Low German), most Germans in Paraguay are of Brazilian descent and Portuguese speakers; [117] plus 20,000 Mennonite Low German, spoken by Mennonites who live in Chaco and Eastern Paraguay [117] The Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay ...
Borbecksch Platt (also called Borbecksch or Borbecker Platt) is a Low German dialect spoken in Essen, Oberhausen and Bottrop, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Borbecksch is one of the variants of the South Westphalian dialects ( German Südwestfälisch ), which belong to Westphalian ( Westfälisch ), itself a variant of ...