The Languages of the Amish of Allen County, Indiana: Multilingualism and Convergence  

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Thompson, Chad L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 36 no. 1 (1994), page 69-91.
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This paper considers language use among the Old Order Amish of Allen County, Indiana, all of whom speak a dialect of German. Their dialect comprises a variety of Low Alemannic, or Alsatian, rather than High Alemannic or Swiss, as has been previously claimed. In addition, English and Pennsylvania German are also significant languages within their community, and some members also know Bernese Swiss and Standard German. As a result, speakers display a high degree of phonological variation. This variation, together with lexical borrowing, suggests that there has been convergence among the languages involved.

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