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Chapter 19 - The English ‘Infusion’ in Pennsylvania German

from IV - Beyond Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

By
Mark L. Louden
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Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

Pennsylvania German (known as Pennsylvania Dutch by most of its speakers) is a North American language that developed in colonial Pennsylvania and is most similar to the dialects of the southeastern Palatinate (Vorderpfalz) (Louden 2016).

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English in the German-Speaking World , pp. 384 - 407
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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