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The Pennsylvania Dutch ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanisch Deitsche ), [1] [2] [3] also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other regions of the United States, predominantly in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nation. [4] [5] [6] They largely descend from the Palatinate region of Germany, and settled in ...
Pennsylvania Dutch ( Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch ⓘ or Pennsilfaanisch ), sometimes referred to as Pennsylvania German, [a] is a variation 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 ...
Fancy Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch, German Americans, Hessians. Palatines ( Palatine German: Pälzer) were the citizens and princes of the Palatinates, Holy Roman States that served as capitals for the Holy Roman Emperor. [1] [2] [3] After the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the nationality referred more specifically to residents of the ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland ), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, [4] [5] is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the Delaware Valley and South Central and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania . By the American Revolution in the 18th century, the region had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch ...
Collectively, they came to be known as the Pennsylvania Dutch (from Deutsch). Etymologically, the word Dutch originates from the Old High German word "diutisc" (from "diot" "people"), referring to the Germanic "language of the people" as opposed to Latin, the language of the learned (see also theodiscus). Eventually the word came to refer to ...
Bernese. Bernese German, ( Standard German: Berndeutsch, Alemannic German: Bärndütsch) is a subdialect of High Alemannic German which is spoken by Old Order Amish in Adams County, Indiana, and their daughter settlements. There are several thousand speakers of the dialect in the US.
German Pennsylvania Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1820. Waves of Palatines (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pälzer) from the Rhenish Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire initially settled in Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. The first Palatines in Pennsylvania arrived in the 1600s but the majority came throughout the 1700s.
Pennsylvania Dutch. Swiss German. The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in ...