Virtual Lecture: “How Swiss German is Amish Shwitzer?”

Adams County, Indiana, is home to the Swiss Amish, who do not speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Shwitzer, which sounds familiar to speakers of modern Swiss-German – and different at the same time. Amish Shwitzer has preserved much of its original Bernese-Swiss-German vocabulary, but its grammatical structure has changed drastically. Rather than converging to American English, it has taken on elements of Pennsylvania Dutch.
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