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Pennsylvania Dutch
(Penn|syl¦va¦nia Dutch)
Pronunciation:
/pɛnsɪlveɪniəˈdʌtʃ/
(also
Pennsylvania German
)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania, chiefly by descendants of 17th- and 18th-century Protestant immigrants.
Origin:
Dutch
from German
Deutsch
'German'
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