Re: [conculture] CHAT: The centre of the temporal universe, was Translation relay

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

J.Barefoot wrote:

> Pennsylvanisch - Germanic? How divergent?

Moderately.  The dialect base is Swabian, but there are mixtures
from other dialects (representing immigration from other parts
of Germany), and there is also an admixture of English and
(over *there*) Brithenig.

Well within the scope of traditional German dialectology.

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