Pennsylvania German
variety of West Central German
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Summary
Pennsylvania German is a language[1]. It ranks in the top 0.7% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,603 views/month, #39 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: United States[3]
- Instance of: sacred language[4], modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Rhine Franconian[6]
- Writing system: Latin script[7]
- Commons category: Pennsylvania German language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: pdc[9]
- Coordinate location: 41, -78[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Pennsylvania Dutch language[11]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 148,000[12]
- Described by source: Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[13]
- Replaces: Frankish[14]
- Native label: Pennsylvanisch Deitsch[15], Pennsylvania Dutch[16]
- Indigenous to: Florida[17], Iowa[18], Indiana[19], Kansas[20], Missouri[21], Ohio[22], Oklahoma[23], Pennsylvania[24], Virginia[25], Wisconsin[26], West Virginia[27], Pennsylvania Dutch[28], Amish[29]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PDC[30], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133118142[31]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[32]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[33], feminine[34], neuter[35]
Why It Matters
Pennsylvania German has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]