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Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language

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By (author): Mark L. Louden

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.

In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major subgroups of speakers: the Fancy Dutch, whose ancestors were affiliated mainly with Lutheran and German Reformed churches, and traditional Anabaptist sectarians known as the Plain peoplethe Old Order Amish and Mennonites.

Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documentsmost of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readersthis is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 658g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 21 May 2019
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781421428970

About Mark L. Louden

Mark L. Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker J. William Frey and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics and director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison.

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