Pennsylvanish
Pennsylvanish | |
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Pennsylvanie German, Pennsylvanie Dutch | |
Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch | |
Native tae | Unitit States, Canadae |
Region | Unitit States: Ither pairts o North Americae an sum auries o Central Americae |
Ethnicity | Pennsylvanie Dutch |
Native speakers | 147,000 (2012-2016 American Community Survey)[1] tae 350,000 (2012)[2] (L2 speakers: aroond 3,000) |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pdc |
Glottolog | penn1240 [3] |
Linguasphere | 52-ACB-he |
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Pennsylvanish (Pensylvanish: Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch; cried Pennsylvanie German or Pennsylvanie Dutch an aw) is a byleid o Wast Central German relatit tae the Palatine byleids, spakken by the Auld Order Amish, Auld Order Mennonites an ither fowk o German forebeirs in the Unitit States an Canadae. Hit is said that thare are aroond 300,000 fowk that spik hit as thair mither leid.
Hit wis tradeetionally a byleid o the Pennsylvanie Dutch fowk, descendants o late 17t an early 18t yeirhunner incomers tae Pennsylvanie, Maryland, Virginie, Wast Virginie, an North Carolina fae soothren Germany, eastren Fraunce, an Swisserland.
Spikkers o the byleid the dey maistly live in Pennsylvanie, Ohio, Indiana, an ither Midwastren states o the Unitit States, an in Ontario in Canadae forby. Historically, the byleid wis spakken in mony ither auries whaur uissage o the byleid haes lawered.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 2016 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/sda/)
- ↑ Steven Hartman Keiser: Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest, 2012
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pennsylvania German". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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