In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are ...

Texas History Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect Texas German, once the primary tongue of nearly 100,000 Texans, is on the verge of dying out.

A. A unique dialect of German, influenced by English, still spoken by descendants of the 100,000 or so immigrants who arrived in Pennsylvania between 1683 and about 1800 from German-speaking lands.

But Portuguese influences have also shaped the German dialects, with the word for cake - "kuchen" in German - turned into "cuca," for example.

A group of Lutherans came to Perry County in 1839. Their descendants still celebrate their faith, culture and a dying language.

Single-word utterances, spoken by members of the older, middle and younger generations of German-dialect-speaking families from six villages in Lorraine were recorded and analysed phonetically. The ...

Alsatian, the German dialect spoken widely in the French border region of Alsace, is being taught for the first time in French public schools. France and Germany have fought several bitter battles ...

Dying dialect gets a voiceUT professor works to help speakers in Fredericksburg preserve Texas German ...

A group of 120 German native speakers were recruited to find out. Study participants were shown videos of a small robot speaking in both a Berlin dialect and the more general standard German dialect.

Many historians trace the loss of German language to anti-German discrimination during World Wars I and II. Keel attributes the decline to changes in education and people becoming less isolated. He ...