Pennsylvania Deutsch Demonstration

For Claire.

It was my birthday.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pennsylvania
• Deutsch
• Dutch
• Old
• people
• accents

[verucasaltshaker]

Wooops, I mainly made this video to illustrate how my grandmothers and grandfathers talk, I did not intend to stir up commentary on the actually language. That being said however, Pennsylvania deutsch is an actual language. I have many of my nana's old cookbooks written in pa deutsch and my entire family throws in colorful idioms and words into almost any conversation so please do not deny the existence of my heritage.

[fuzerl]

und wos hot deis mit deitsch ztuan?

is ollas auf ainglisch !!!!

[armedconventicle]

These people are speaking dutchy english - the accent and some grammatical influences are pa german. This is not PA German.

[unitedkarate456]

This was taken a day before I turned two.

[xexixk]

@rp1703 There are audio recordings of it being spoking, your may not find them here on youtube but if you do a google search you will. Some of them I found were one various university websites as the recordings had been made for different launguage/ethnic studies programs.

[rp1703]

I haven't found one single video, titled with Pennsylvanian Dutch or Pennsylvanian German or Deitsch, where anything else than English would be spoken. I think it's a myth and those who speak it, don't use the technology to record it (Amish).

[Artehenis]

Hahaha das hab ik jo gut gefunden aber ik hörte kein Deitsch, nur englisch.

[HazeofSpace]

dess pennsylvania dutch iss mo vunn unserm westpälzische dialekt raus entstann, alde amish känne denne dialekt noch gud spreche saht mer, ich ded gärn e mo mit em do driwwer vezehle. abber in dem video do iss kaum ä wort pennsylvania dutch aka. pälzisch se häre!

[veganfemale]

@auitane

You got it right. As someone who actually speaks High German, Dutch (as in The Netherlands) and Palatinate German (the dialect in Germany which is closest to PA Deitsch), this debate is tiresome to me. PA Deitsch has no resemblance to Dutch, it's rather an embarrasing reasoning for someone basically going back to the indogermanic roots of language to twist the argument in their favor.

[veganfemale]

@jukkaaakula

Whatever the relationship is between Dutch and German, PA "Dutch" has not relation to Dutch but is Palatinate German.

Drumm kenne mich de PA-Deitsche a vesteh wenn ich uff ämol ofong Pälsisch ze babble:-))

[veganfemale]

@rolandnatze

PA Deitsch is not Dutch... read the wikipedia article on PA "Dutch". And like some other people commented, this family is just speaking English.

[parmesanschnitzel]

I' am surprised! I live near Mannheim, Germany. Runner and nunner sounds like the special dialect of Mannheim (Monnem)... nuffzuus (go to the top) nunnerzuus (go down).

watch some "Bülent Ceylan" spots (a comedian from Mannheim) and you understand!

After the 30years war in that region in Germany only are 400 people left - many went to America! Today it's the 7th biggest region Germans live.