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    Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language

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    Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language

    Mark L. L. Louden, "Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language "
    English | ISBN: 1421428970 | 2019 | 504 pages | PDF | 41 MB

    The fascinating story of America's oldest thriving heritage language.
    Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award by the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College
    While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century despite having never been "refreshed" by later waves of immigration from abroad.
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