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No need for linguistic knowledge, I once had the chance to read some Pennsylvania Dutch texts stored in a library at a university in Central PA, and it was all
by DiscourseFan 3y ago
No need for linguistic knowledge, I once had the chance to read some Pennsylvania Dutch texts stored in a library at a university in Central PA, and it was all Swiss German. "Dutch" is just the Americanization of "Deutsch," which is why they often call them the "Pennsylvania Deutsch" instead.
- jhoechtl 3y agoIt's regularly spelled "daitsch" by the speakers themselves.