Hutterite dialect
| Hutterite | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Canada , United States | |
| speaker | 50,000 (estimated, 2016) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
gem (other Germanic languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
go |
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Hutteran , also Huttererdeutsch , is the name of the German language form spoken by the Hutterites in Canada and the USA .
The Hutteric dialect is a balancing dialect based on Bavaria , which is predominantly Carinthian . However, it also contains elements from Tyrol , going back to the founder Jakob Hutter and his companions from Tyrol, as well as elements from East Central Bavaria from the time in Moravia. However, through the admission of Carinthian countrymen (also known as transmigrants ) from the time in Transylvania , the Hutterite dialect was very much changed into Carinthian. In addition to a few Slavic elements, quite a few English words have been adopted in the technical-modern field in the last 120 years.
Hutterite is neither a distant language compared to other Southeast German dialects, nor is it an extension language in any form , but the speakers use a somewhat ancient High German as the umbrella language . According to these criteria, which English-language linguistics know but hardly use, Hutterite is not an independent language , but a dialect of German, which also corresponds to the Hutterites' self-view.
literature
- Helga Lorenz-Andreasch: "Mir sein jå kolla Teitschverderber" - the language of the Schmiedeleut-Hutterer in Manitoba / Canada , Vienna 2004.
- Herfried Scheer: The German dialect of the Hutterite Brothers in North America , Vienna 1987. (A dictionary of Hutterite with approx. 1000 words)
- Kurt Rein: Religious minorities as language community models. German language islands of Anabaptist origin in the United States of America, Wiesbaden 1977.