knappa
April 4, 2023, 3:22am
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They didn’t call themselves Deutsch, but rather Deitsch. The Palatine region that the Amish are from is pretty close to the Netherlands. Especially historically, it’s a language continuum.
The word Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is not a mistranslation but rather a derivation of the Pennsylvania Dutch endonym Deitsch, which means "Pennsylvania Dutch" or "German." Ultimately, the terms Deitsch, Dutch, Diets and Deutsch are all descendants of the Proto-Germanic word *þiudiskaz, meaning "popular" or "of the people."
Dutch in the English language originally referred to all Germanic dialect speakers. New Englanders referred to the Hollandic Dutch language spoken by the New York Dutch as "...
Palatine German (endonym: Pälzisch; Standard German: Pfälzisch [ˈpfɛltsɪʃ]), also known as Palatinate German or Palatine Dutch, is a Rhenish Franconian dialect and is spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the area between Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Alzey, Worms, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Mannheim, Odenwald, Heidelberg, Speyer, Landau, Wörth am Rhein and the border to Alsace and Lorraine, in France, but also beyond.
The Pennsylvania Dutch language, also called Pennsylvania German, is desce...
system
April 8, 2023, 1:46pm
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