Amish Children Singing

We were hosted by an Amish family in Holmes County for lunch and at the end of the meal their children sang for us. It was a great trip. Btw, the Amish don't like to be photographed or videotaped but we asked the family and they didn't mind getting a video recorded of their kids.

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• Pennsylvania
• Dutch
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[tammylynnforever]

I grew up around many amish people and we had some close friends that were amish I feel blessed to have known them

[buckeyebibleboy]

Ok, I want to know how you managed to get Amish to host...I'm assuming you are related to them? Because I thought they tried to avoid the "English"

[Coaljet]

It's actually quite easy to understand how the whole "Dutch" thing came about. True, they're not "Dutch" but "Deutsch" (German)...but this is pronounced more like "Deitsch"--and to undiscriminating English ears, well, it's all "Dutch" to them... :) "Dutch" is therefore inaccurate, but it stuck...just like people still call American natives "Indians" (nothing to do whatsoever with India...but it stuck).

[SeargentGunner]

@1993MovieMan and one more thing: "pennsylvania dutch" (pennsylvania deutsch) has nothing to do with with the dutch from the netherlands...its just that "german" means in german "deutsch"...for example germany is in german "deutschland"so it became "pennsylvania dutch".

It is a German dialect we speak in the south west of Germany in the area round Mannheim. There are some little differences in pronounciation but this is understandable.

[SeargentGunner]

@1993MovieMan So why do quite all of the amish speak german ("pfälzischer" dialekt)? The amish faith commuity was founded by a swiss man, but most of the amish people are actually german or have german antecedents!

[1993MovieMan]

@Milezzfan4ever Yes , The First Amish WERE Swiss ! However , MOST MODERN Amish in The U.S. and Canada ARE of Dutch Descent !

[Milezzfan4ever]

@1993MovieMan The Amish aren't of Dutch but of Swiss descent, they were founded in Zurich by a Swiss Mennonite called Jakob Amman.

[1993MovieMan]

@jimmyjohnson691 The Amish and myself are of Dutch descent , NOT German ! There IS a difference ! And , no you DO NOT have to be of Dutch descent to join An Amish Community ! You just have to swear an oath to uphold the laws of The Community !