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<font color="#333333"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><b>From
the Elkhart (Indiana) Truty October 7, 2017 </b></font></font>
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<font color="#333333"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><b>BY
DANI MESSICK</b></font></font></p>
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<a><font color="#0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><span style="font-weight: normal">dmessick@elkharttruth.com</span></font></span></font></a></p>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">MIDDLEBURY
— “I was, like, a baby when my parents left the Amish (church),
so I don’t even remember it,” Dan Byler explained. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">Growing
up in a mennonite church, Byler’s family continued to speak the
Pennsylvania Dutch language of the Amish. His family is just one of
many with a similar story.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">Thursday
night, over 100 dutch-speakers met at Griner Mennonite Church in
Middlebury to celebrate their love of the language and it’s
culture at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of
Northern Indiana.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333">“<font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">It’s
a gear toward people that used to speak Pennsylvania Dutch but don’t
anymore on a regular basis,” Byler explained.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">Pennsylvania
Dutch is the language of the Amish and Old Order Mennonites. In
Germany, prior to the invention of the printing press, there were
two dialects of the German language – High German was spoken in
the highlands and Low German </font></font></font>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">was
spoken in the lowlands.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333">“<font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">When
the printing press was invented and the first Bible was written by
(Martin Luther) who spoke High German ...”</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt">Today’s
German language transformed from what was then known as High German.
Low German grew into multiple dialects, one of which is today’s
Pennsylvania Dutch. Small pockets of people around the world still
speak the Low German language, including the parts of the
Netherlands and Northern Germany, but the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect
is virtually only spoken in the United States and Canada, where the
Old Order Anabaptist religions such as the Old Order Amish, Old
Order Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#333333"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia"><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">It
is estimated that there are around 300,000 fluent speakers of the
language alive today. There is no established phonetics for writing
in the language; Byler, as the author of the Pennsylvania Deitsch
Society of Northern Indiana newsletter, chooses to use his own set
of English-based phonetics when writing it, but many who write in
the language use Germanbased phonetics.“The purpose of this
society is to help members develop an appreciation for their
ancestors,” </span></span></font></font><span style="font-weight: normal">
Byler said, adding that an additional goal is to help preserve the
language. </span></font>
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<font color="#333333">“<span style="font-weight: normal">I have
friends what are still Amish and the ones that are 10-15 years
younger than me, they have a whole different vocabulary; they use
the words in English,” Byler said. “They’re losing the
language and, at this rate, in another 30-40 years they’ll be
speaking English. There are way more English words than I was using
as a kid. Some of the words that they’re dropping are the easy
words; the days of the week; they say their numbers in English.”</span></font></p>
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<font color="#333333">At the Pennsylvania Deitsch Society’s annual
dinner, dutch-speakers from around Michiana gather for dinner and a
presentation, speaking to each other and presenting in Pennsylvania
Dutch only. This year’s presentations features headliner John
Schmid, a Dutch-singing musician, a radio show skit called “The
Bickersons” by Ann and David Yoder and stories by Byler himself.
In the past, they’ve done plays and skits as well – the
presentation is different every year.</font></p>
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<font color="#333333">“<span style="font-weight: normal">It’s
just a fun time to get together and have the program in Dutch,” he
said.</span></font></p>
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<font color="#333333">Member into the Pennsylvania Deitsch Society
is $5 annually.</font></p>
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<font size="4"><font color="#9a3d3d"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Georgia">Group
seeks to preserve Amish language</font></font><br></font><br>
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<font color="#333333"><b>BY DANI MESSICK</b></font></p>
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<a><font color="#0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span style="font-weight: normal">dmessick@elkharttruth.com</span></span></font></a></p>
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<font color="#333333">aptist Brethren.</font></p>
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<font color="#333333">It is estimated that there are around
300,000 fluent speakers of the language alive today. There is no
established phonetics for writing in the language; Byler, as the
author of the Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of Northern Indiana
newsletter, chooses to use his own set of English-based phonetics
when writing it, but many who write in the language use
Germanbased phonetics.“The purpose of this society is to
help members develop an appreciation for their ancestors,”</font></p>
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<font color="#333333">See <b>PRESERVE,</b> PAGE A8 </font>
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<font color="#333333">John Schmid is shown performing at the
Pennsylvania Deitsch Society event. He translated music into Dutch
for the show.</font></p>
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<font color="#333333">Elkhart Truth photo / Dani Messick</font></p>
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<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" </div><div><lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org><br></lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org></div><lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org><div>Subject: Re: [Lowlands-l] Amish & "low German"
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