Definitions for Pennsylvania Dutch
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1. Pennsylvania Dutchnoun

   a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland

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1. Pennsylvania Dutchadjective

   Related to the Amish or their language.

2. Pennsylvania Dutchnoun

   The Amish; those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800.

3. Pennsylvania Dutchnoun

   Their language.

4. Etymology: From Pennsylvania + Dutch, in the now obsolete sense of "German".

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1. Pennsylvania Dutch

   The Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch), also known as Pennsylvania Germans, are a cultural group formed by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. They emigrated primarily from German-speaking territories of Europe, mainly from the Palatinate, also from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, and Rhineland in Germany as well as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France's Alsace-Lorraine region. Pennsylvania's German settlers described themselves as Deutsch or Hoch Deutsch, which in contemporary English translated to "Dutch" or "High Dutch" ("Dutch" historically referred to all Germanic dialect speakers in English). They spoke several south German dialects, though Palatine German was the dominant language; their mixing contributed to a hybrid dialect, known as Pennsylvania Dutch, or Pennsylvania German, that has been preserved through the current day. The Pennsylvania Dutch maintained numerous religious affiliations; the greatest number are Lutheran or German Reformed with a lesser number of Anabaptists, including Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. The Anabaptist groups espoused a simple lifestyle, and their adherents were known as Plain Dutch; this contrasted to the Fancy Dutch, mostly of the Catholic, Lutheran, or Reformed churches, who tended to assimilate more easily into the American mainstream. By the late 1700s, other denominations were also represented in smaller numbers.The Pennsylvania Dutch Country and the Ohio Amish Country are heavily associated with them.

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1. pennsylvania dutch

   Pennsylvania Dutch refers to a language or dialect derived from High German and spoken by the Amish, Old Order Mennonites, and other descendants of German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country of the United States. Additionally, the term can refer to the descendants of 17th- and 18th-century German-speaking immigrants hailing from various parts of Switzerland, Germany, and the Alsace region of France. Contrary to what the name suggests, Pennsylvania Dutch has no relation to the Dutch language- it's a corruption of the word "Deutsch," the German word for "German".

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1. Pennsylvania Dutch

   Pennsylvania Dutch refers to immigrants and their descendants from Alsace, southwestern Germany and Switzerland who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries. Historically they have spoken the dialect of German known as Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German. The first major emigration of Germans to America resulted in the founding of the Borough of Germantown in northwest Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1683. Mass emigration of Palatines began out of Germany in the early 18th century. The Pennsylvania Dutch maintained numerous religious affiliations, with the greatest number being Lutheran or Reformed, but many Anabaptists as well. The Anabaptist religions promoted a simple lifestyle and their adherents were known as Plain people or Plain Dutch, as opposed to the Fancy Dutch who tended to assimilate more easily into the American mainstream. Over time, the various dialects spoken by these immigrants fused into a unique dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German. At one time, over a third of Pennsylvania's population spoke this language, which also had an impact on the local dialect of English. After the Second World War, use of Pennsylvania German died out in favor of English, except among the more insular and tradition-bound Anabaptists, such as the Old Order Mennonite and Old Order Amish. However, a number of German cultural practices continue to this day, and German-Americans remain the largest ancestry group in Pennsylvania.

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   The numerical value of Pennsylvania Dutch in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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   The numerical value of Pennsylvania Dutch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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