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	Pennsylvania German language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The use of Pennsylvania German as a street language in urban areas (such as Allentown, Reading, Lancaster and York) was declining by the arrival of the 20th century, while in more rural areas it continued in widespread use through World War II but not much beyond.
		This is because Pennsylvania German speakers came from various parts of the southwest German-speaking corner including the Palatinate, Swabia, Württemberg, Alsace, and Switzerland.
		Pennsylvania German can be said to be dying in at least two ways.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_German_language (2909 words)

	Pennsylvania Dutch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pennsylvania Dutch were historically speakers of the Pennsylvania German language.
		Pennsylvania Dutch from the Palatinate of the Rhine
		Recently due to loss of the Pennsylvania German language in many communities, as well as to intermarriage and increased mobility, especially in the more secular communities, Pennsylvania Dutch ethnic consciousness is often very low, especially among younger Pennsylvania Dutch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_German (646 words)

	Dialect Literature and Speech, Pennsylvania German
		Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) is a dialect spoken widely in southeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s and in other places to which Pennsylvania Germans have migrated.
		The continued use of German by the Amish can be explained by their reluctance to accept any changes in religious practices and partly by the fact that since their music and devotional literature were in German they were fearful of losing their religious heritage by dropping the German.
		Pennsylvania German is popularly known as "Pennsylvania Dutch," even though it is a German dialect rather than Netherlands Dutch.
	www.gameo.org /encyclopedia/contents/D5351ME.html (1337 words)

	German language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German is the third popular foreign language taught worldwide and the most popular in Europe (after English) the USA and East Asia (Japan).
		German used to be the language of and government in the Habsburg Empire which encompassed a large area of and Eastern Europe.
		German is a member of the West of the Germanic family of languages which in turn part of the Indo-European language family.
	www.freeglossary.com /German_language (1505 words)

	German
		German belongs to the Western group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
		The German dialects spoken in colonies founded by German-speaking people were based on the regional dialects spoken by the original colonists, e.g., Pennsylvania German (erroneously called Dutch instead of Deutsch) is based on the dialects of the Palatinate region of Germany.
		German is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/German.html (1594 words)

	Modelling syntactic change in Pennsylvania German (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The variety of Pennsylvania German (PG) which we study is spoken in Waterloo County, Canada.
		Pennsylvania German is a descendent of the variety of German which was spoken by the people who emigrated from Europe to the United States from the 17th century onwards.
		The language as it is has grown out of a blend of the many different dialects which came into Pennsylvania during the first wave of immigration during the 17th century.
	lings.ln.man.ac.uk /Research/PennG/language.html (359 words)

	Pennsylvania German, so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pennsylvania German (so-called "Pennsylvania Dutch") is a true dialect of the German language.
		It is not a broken or corrupted form of German; nor is it a creole (a composite language), or a pigin (a language for convenience of trade).
		The Pennsylvania Germans are so named because most of them came from German-speaking regions, and most settled in Pennsylvania (although their area of settlement spilled over slightly into adjacent states).
	alpha.fdu.edu /~boyer/PaDeitsch.html (240 words)

	German language and Germany by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German is used as the official language of Germany and of Austria.
		German is also spoken in dialect form throughout Luxembourg and by much of the population of the regions of eastern France formerly known as Alsace and Lorraine.
		The most politically and militarily successful of the migrating Germanic tribes – the Franks, the Langobards, the Allemanni, and the Visigoths – all abandoned their Germanic languages in favor of the popular Latin spoken by the indigenous populations of the Roman territories they overran and subsequently governed.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/german.htm (1482 words)

	About the USA > Germans in America > German Language in the U.S.
		German Media in the U.S. The Germantown settlers were followed by tens of thousands of other German immigrants during the 18th century.
		The majority of the German words adopted into American English refer to eating and drinking (for example, sauerkraut and schnapps), but there are also some that testify to the German contributions to American life and culture (such as songfest and kindergarten).
		Most German immigrants settled in established communities and were rarely in a position to choose distinctive German town names.
	usa.usembassy.de /germanamericans-language.htm (875 words)

	Grad Course Descriptions Spring 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German 391 and 392 are self-contained; i.e., German 391 does not serve as a prerequisite for multi-skill courses such as German 203 or 273.
		German 391 and 392 may not be applied to a graduate minor in German.
		Pennsylvania German, better known as Pennsylvania Dutch, is currently spoken by over 200,000 people in the United States and Canada and is one of the very few minority languages in North America to thrive alongside English and French.
	german.lss.wisc.edu /curriculum/Spring2006G.html (1999 words)

	Undergrad Course Descriptions Spring 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since Dutch is a Germanic language--linguistically related to both German and English-and since Dutch culture and literature have always had close ties to both German and English-speaking cultures, Dutch is a logical choice as an additional language for American students of German language, literature and culture.
		Prerequisites: German 204 or 273 with a grade of A or B, or German 215 or 225, or placement at 5th semester level and consent of instructor.
		The aim of German 225 is to develop the students' ability to speak and write in German on everyday matters and current events through daily oral work (in-class discussions and presentations) and weekly essays.
	german.lss.wisc.edu /curriculum/Spring2006U.htm (2443 words)

	pennsylvania german language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch is a High German language spoken by to people in North America.
		German inhabitants under the title "Der Alarm", the Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania and the Regulations for the Pennsylvania Militia in German.
		Any claim that German might have become the main language of Pennsylvania in the 1790s, when over 66 percent of the population spoke English, is absurd.
	www.german.learn-a-language.info /pennsylvania-german-language.htm (789 words)

	Penna. Germans - Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The first German immigrants came to Pennsylvania in 1683, just two years after William Penn received the land from King Charles II of England.
		After the initial patent deed from the proprietors of Pennsylvania, all subsequent transactions between private individuals were in the form of deeds, which may or may not have been recorded in the county courthouse.
		It was the language spoken at home, even when English was learned in school and used for business outside the home.
	www.galenfrysinger.ws /pennsylvania_germans.htm (810 words)

	Conference Outline - English
		It is no surprise that the language debate is particularly heated in European nations since their languages find themselves "reduced" to small languages in the position of second foreign languages on an emerging worldwide language market.
		English is no longer identified with a language of colonialism but is seen by many as the language of the future, associated with social modernization, economic growth, technological innovation and a modern way of life.
		German as a language of communication and of conflict
	www.nyu.edu /deutscheshaus/futureofgerman/engoutline.html (692 words)

	U.S. ENGLISH, Inc.: Towards a United America - "); document.write(month + '/' + now.getDate() + '/' + ...
		In the State Assembly, not long after the conclusion of peace, a motion was made to establish the German language as the official and legal language of Pennsylvania...
		When the vote was taken on this question -- whether the prevailing language in the Assembly, in the courts and in the official records of Pennsylvania should be German -- there was a tie.
		On January 9, 1794, a petition from the Germans in Virginia (not Pennsylvania) requested that Congress provide for the publication of German translations of some of its laws.
	www.us-english.org /inc/official/about/misconceptions/german.asp (445 words)

	Landis Valley Museum - Pennsylvania German Heritage - Lancaster County Tourism, PA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In America, Pennsylvania Dutch children prepared a nest for the Easter Rabbit on Easter Eve knowing that the Rabbit would fill the nest with colored eggs if the children were well-behaved.
		It was a day when Pennsylvania Germans headed for the hills--and the fields and the gardens--searching for greens such as dandelion leaves and clover or cabbage.
		Early Pennsylvania Dutch women would use old newspaper, wrapping paper and other scrap paper and cut it in a decorative manner to line shelves on open dish cupboards and for use as doilies.
	www.landisvalleymuseum.org /info_glossary.htm (4157 words)

	Immigration... German: Shadows of War
		For German Americans, the 20th century was a time of growth and consolidation; their numbers increased, their finances became more stable, and Americans of German heritage rose to positions of great power and distinction.
		For German American culture, however, the new century was a time of severe setbacks--and a devastating blow from which it has never fully recovered.
		None of these institutions ever fully recovered, and the centuries-old tradition of German language and literature in the United States was pushed to the margins of national life, and in many places effectively ended.
	rs6.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/german8.html (712 words)

	German Language School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German language courses - Study German in Vienna.
		The German Language School offers courses in German for adults and children.Adult classes at all levels monday and wednesday evenings, children saturday mornings.
		The German Language School Conference (GLSC) is the national organization for private German language schools in the United States.
	www.languagepilot.com /studyabroad/german-language-school.html (347 words)

	Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
		Language background of the mother tongue, linguistic orientation, articles/tenses, pronouns/gender, conversation patterns, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, etc.; most advanced level of dialect study.
		Introduction, history of Low German, origins of Netherlandic Mennonites and their language, language of Mennonites in Prussia/Russia/America, status of Low German today; bibliography, index; based on scholarly research; presented in a form accessible to general public.
		Pennsylvania Dutch Language: An Introduction to the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect.
	www.lmhs.org /booksale/bkstore/dialect/index.htm (1774 words)

	Deitscherei.org
		Pennsylvania German is clearly a High German dialect that is most closely related to the German dialect of the Palatinate with infusions of features from other German dialects.
		However, this notion is fraught with the danger of "Germanizing" Pennsylvania Dutch.
		The German teachers would need to learn the nuances of Deitsch as well as the different pronunciation of Deitsch words vs. their German cognates.
	www.deitscherei.org /index.asp?pg=aasicht (3242 words)

	PA German Society News and Events
		The Pennsylvania German Society is holding its 2006 Annual Meeting in association with the Society for German-American Studies on May 4-7 in Lancaster at the Lancaster Host Resort and Conference Center.
		Local Pennsylvania Germans will be interested in the perspective on German-American life brought by members of the Society for German-American Studies.
		Along with the lectures on Pennsylvania German and German-American history and culture, a number of other interesting activities are planned, including special Friday afternoon tours of the Ephrata Cloister and the Landis Valley Museum.
	www.pgs.org /news_meeting.asp (802 words)

	Pennsylvania Dutch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania German) is the blending of several German dialects.
		It is spoken in the Eastern United States and by a few thousand in Canada.
		There are perhaps 100,000 first language speakers, but mostly of middle or old age.
	www.flw.com /languages/penngerman.htm (40 words)

	Pennsylvania Dutch Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaint Idioms and Expressions of the Pennsylvania Germans...
		...The Dutch Language Union defines what is AN and what is not, for example in terms of orthography.....To this day, descendants of German settlers in Pennsylvania are known as the...
		Pennsylvania dutch language language translation dutch Home apple dvd player download dutch language pennsylvania dutch language language translation dutch dutch language translator dutch...
	www.lawrencecountyepics.com /pennsylvania-dutch-language.html (206 words)

	Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pennsylvania German and Syntactic Change." Paper presented at the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 17-20, 1991.
		"Pennsylvania German, It's Dying Isn't it?" Invited lecture at the Annual Dinner meeting of the Gratz Historical Society, June 23, 1988.
		"Divergent Norms in Pennsylvania German: The dative case is dead and alive." Paper presented at the Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, April 23-25, 1987.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /vp_academic_affairs/Papers.html (1130 words)

	Language
		Moving from place to place, language sometimes seemed like one of the only things that remained relatively the same; a bond that tied Mennonite groups together.
		After some time this German evolved from "high" or the Palatinate German dialect to a unique Pennsylvania Deutsch, or "Pennsylvania German." This dialect was later dubbed "Pennsylvania Dutch" because of the English way of saying "Deutsch," not because it had anything to do with Holland.
		Some insisted that the German language was an important part of their faith and culture, and did not want English to become broadly used.
	www.mhsc.ca /mennos/clanguage.html (535 words)

	AskOxford: About the German Language
		German is spoken by approximately 80 million people in Germany, and by several million in other European countries such as Austria (7 million), Luxemburg (c.300,000), Switzerland (3.4 million), and the region of Alsace-Lorraine in France (1.5 million).
		In the last few years there have been various attempts to change German spelling, which was consolidated at the end of the 19th century in the Rechtschreibung der Deutschen Sprache (Orthography of the German Language), by the German philologist Konrad Duden.
		To the English native speaker, the main difference between English and German is the use of grammatical genders and cases, which determine the endings of words.
	www.askoxford.com /languages/de/about (243 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Department of Modern Language Studies is seeking a person to fill a one-semester, one-quarter time position to teach Introduction to the Pennsylvania German Language.
		The preferred text is Earl Haag’s Pennsylvania German Reader and Grammar, although the instructor will have final control over all instructional materials.
		Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is a member of the State System of Higher Education.
	www.kutztown.edu /cgi-bin/print.pl?file=employment/PADutch092205.shtml (294 words)

	The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective
		The foundation for “The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective” was laid in a collaborative seminar on the topic sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, which took place during the spring of 2006.
		Jack Thiessen is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Winnipeg, where he taught from 1961 to 1988.
		Peter Wagener is a Research Scientist at the Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache) in Mannheim, Germany, where he directs the German Language Archive (Deutsches Spracharchiv), the largest sound archive of spoken German in the world.
	mki.wisc.edu /News/Conferences/Language_Immigration/index.html (1161 words)

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