The Sound of the Midwestern American High German dialect (Numbers, Phrases, Words & Sample Text)

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Well, since the first German Americans moved to the US in the 1600s, the German language has been spoken here. Most speakers are over 60 years old but here and there, the language is passed on to the younger generations. Actually, there are also many dialects in the USA for example, here, some speak Deitsch, Dätsch, Dietsch, and Dütsch and I’m not talking about Pennsylvania German or Texas German dialects.
In some parts of Nebraska, there are some descendants of the first cowboys who can still speak Plattdeutsch while fewer can still [speak] in states like Missouri. There are also Saxon speakers in the region of St. Louis who I’m related to. Even words like “Stinkkatze” and “Luftschiff” are used in other states like Kansas and Indiana. In Jasper county in southern Indiana near to where my dad is from, people say “Gschvel” for a squirrel. Or when my dad was an over-imaginative boy and wanted to have himself a little fun, my grandpa would yell, “out!” and would ban him from the house for a while.
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@gurayy8207 3 жыл бұрын

non-english european languages in america are so interesting!

@04kilik40 3 жыл бұрын

South Australia used to have a unique dialect of German developing (I believe it was called Barossan Deutsch) in the mid 1800s, early 1900s. However, during WW1, a number of German-Australians were held in camps. And the German culture as a whole was neglected and repressed throughout the whole of Australia, during the WWs; to the point where most Aussies won't know this fact. As an Aussie with a bit of German heritage, I can't help but wonder what Australian-German would have been like, glad the US managed to hold onto theirs.

@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, the US government was incredibly hostile toward the public use of the German language due to the WW2 mentality and it later went out of fashion with German Americans assimilating in order to avoid persecution by Anglicizing their names and not passing their language down to the future generations. Still, it is estimated that 1.3 million people in the US can speak German and the statistics also includes dialects spoken by the Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites. America could’ve had approximately 5-10 million German speakers if not for that “speak American” policy.

@blacksea90 3 жыл бұрын

If you dont pay much attention you dont realize its an American dialect of the language . This pronunciation sounds almost fully German.

@keepup32323 3 жыл бұрын

In southern Brazil there are several german dialects that developed with the region like the Parana german, the Riograndenser (Rio Grande do Sul), the pomeranian from Espírito Santo etc. All of the communities would print their local newspapers in German like in Curitiba, Ponta Grossa, Blumenau, Santa Cruz do Sul. It was predominantly spoken in schools, public offices, church masses, commercial establishments and Gesangsvereine (Chant unions). Until that in 1937 the Brazilian president at that time Getúlio Vargas decides to veer his regime system by means of a newly redacted Constitution into a nationalistic government without previous congressional approval with rising of the Europe's fascistic regimes and the worsening of worldly tensions. At that time, local languages including German, and Italian were officially banned from being spoken in public. Many Teuto-brasilian citizens who had nothing to do with what happened overseas were affected by it, by having assets frozen, slandered and marred as "fifth columns", traitors etc, house searching. Even a coastal town had to dim its lights down to avoid attracting any supposed submarine. But the german culture lives on there, despite its many past adversities, in local parishes, it is still taught as a second language in small community schools, it is very commonly heard in the countryside among ranchers and small town dwellers and in Stammbaum events and festivities.

@yannsteunou-murray9401 3 жыл бұрын

Howdy J'all

@alistairt7544 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@sammy6499 3 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting to hear as a German. In fact, due to globalisation and the English language being very common on the internet, many young German people adapt English slang words or filler words into their daily German vocabulary. This means that hearing this American-German dialect shown here doesn't actually sound too far away from German, as we're already starting to mix English into our speech. Not everyone of course. The dialect was very easy to understand as well. Basically like standard German language with some informal grammar in between (mostly occuring in colloquial everyday speech) and of course the English-German mixed words.

@freshpansen6313 3 жыл бұрын

Tiktok egirls reden doch immer denglisch lol

@tylerg.2599 3 жыл бұрын

Ich könnte alles hier verstehen. Richtig interessant.

@scolfy 3 жыл бұрын

ziemlich sogar

@johnvanlandewyck4295 3 жыл бұрын

As a German native speaker I can understand everything, but it's funny how a German dialect has adopted an very american accent as well as tons of germanized english words. I had to smirk as I heard "gepublisht" or "depending an wo man lebt". I noticed many expressions are literally translated into German, which could confuse German speakers from other countries

@andrewstravels2096 2 жыл бұрын

This is a very cool find! I am a proud German American!!!

@chase.7780 3 жыл бұрын

serious respect to whoever this guy is for preserving what otherwise would be a lost piece of American heritage. I can relate especially, since I'm the only person in my family who can speak Norwegian (which I had to learn in Norway instead of Midwestern America) despite the fact that the majority of my relatives/ancestors spoke it before WW2.

@rolandfink2537 3 жыл бұрын

In Russia there are many German dialects mostly in Siberia and Kazakhstan and Kaliningrad

@hansandhismp-4033 3 жыл бұрын

Because Kaliningrad was Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia.

@erichamilton3373 3 жыл бұрын

Ich bin Deutsch-Muttersprachler aus den USA obwohl ich nicht sagen kann dass dies mein Dialekt ist. German native speaker from California here.

@pierrefranckx6363 3 жыл бұрын

Ich möchte Sie gerne sprechen hören. Könntest Ihr ein video hochladen? Vielen Dank im Voraus!

@Ian-dn6ld 3 жыл бұрын

In case it matters, it would be worth noting that for starters, thank you so much for posting this. Secondly, my Opa says “raus” with a hard r so the rolled r is a variation of what I’ve heard here an there. There isn’t a standard standard but both are acceptable and found as both.

@weeweefeet4030 Жыл бұрын

This was so easy to understand! It went straight to my brain. I’ve been leaning German for the last 9 years and am American. I’m sure it helped to have so many English words mixed in with this dialect of German, but the speakers also have an amazingly clear pronunciation and use words that are simple and easy to understand. I have a fairly good knowledge of German vocabulary but usually my problem when I hear it spoken is that the speaker slurs the words and uses words that are really complex and unrelated to words I know. I usually understand at least 3/5 of German but I feel like I understand 95% of American High German!

@abbyseipert3457 3 жыл бұрын

Danke für dieses Video! In meinem Dorf in Süd Illinois haben wir nichts so viel Deutsch Sprecher, aber die Alten merken ihre Eltern oder Großeltern Deutsch gesprochen. Immigranten kommen noch aus Deutschland, sie sind die größte Kraft, für es weider zubringen. Ich hoffe das wir konnen es als ein gemeinsame Sprache weider zubringen.

@Ian-dn6ld 3 жыл бұрын

Ayyy that was me in the recording. Yeah 😊 it’s cool and sad how these stories are basically the same. :/ could you imagine how different things might have been if people hadn’t become so uptight and allowed it to become a purely American cultural marker?

@senantiasa 3 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, this is so similar in many ways to standard German.. It's interesting how weiter is pronounced vider (almost like an Engilsh word).

@prismaticc_abyss 3 жыл бұрын

Here in the palatinate Region where I live, t is often warped into a d so weiter becomes waida, Tür becomes Dehr or Dihr and Teufel becomes Deiwel.

@Thinkingman69 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who speaks German fluently I was surprised at how much I understood. Really nice and interesting dialect.

@ash_phoenix3282 3 жыл бұрын

Please do Texas German next plz!

@ilovelanguages0124 3 жыл бұрын

I need a volunteer.

@michaelatris517 3 жыл бұрын

It’s funny because I’m a german 5 student in school. I live in the Midwest and this was the easiest German to understand for me. A lot of English mixed in like how we talk in German lass when we don’t remember a word.

@Ian-dn6ld 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, if you want to tick your teacher off (give them a heads up before), in the US, everyone says "gleich" instead of mag. Ich gleich das. Sie/Er/Es gleicht. Sie gleichen. Sie haben den Film geglichen. (They have the movie liked). That's what's used in basically every state for some reason instead of mögen, No idea why, but yeah. It's sad. I had a Wiki page up with a whole dictionary of American german words you could have seen, but the editors decided it wasn't relevant enough and decided to just take the whole thing and link it to some generalized page.

@CarlWinzil 3 жыл бұрын

If that's Andy's voice at the start, it's on another level :) (in a good way )

@ayanachu4907 3 жыл бұрын

Its andy

@Qwerty-hy5mj 3 жыл бұрын

How understandable is this to German speakers? I’m learning German and I think it’s relatively the same but with some English words put in.

@basaka00 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's true. It's much easier to understand than most Plattdeutsch, Bayrisch and Schweizerdeutscher Dialekte.

@Qwerty-hy5mj 3 жыл бұрын

@@basaka00+ I think now why it’s quite understandable is cause Standard German is based on the High German “Hochdeutsch” dialect and this dialect is High German in origin.

@hakanozaslan9571 3 жыл бұрын

I can understand it better than Swiss-German or one of the Bavarian dialects. The grammar differs in certain sentences. It's almost Standard German but certain words have this Southern German (Schwäbisch) pronounciation while others are more like Plattdeutsch, plus a few English words. I may also add that there are a few creations like "Stinkkatz", while in Germany we'd say Stinktier for Skunk.

@hoathanatos6179 3 жыл бұрын

@@hakanozaslan9571 All of the various dialects of German spoken in the Americas call a Skunk a Stinkcat. Only foreign Europeans call the North American animal a Stinktier.

@hoathanatos6179 3 жыл бұрын

@@hakanozaslan9571 A squirrel in my dialect is also called an Oakcat while this High German dialect seems have taken the Bavarian word Gschwerl and have applied it to squirrels since it sounds like a Germanized version of the English word for the animal and the fact that they carry around nuts.

@yimveerasak3543 3 жыл бұрын

The voice sounds fluent in German omg

@tomnicholls9016 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is so interesting!!!!!

@private776 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Fallout Tactics reavers. Only chosen ones understand😂

@lorelaim3294 3 жыл бұрын

My great grandma knew it and I never knew she knew it until after she died...

@drewsomerville2234 3 жыл бұрын

OMG! That R trill at 2:10

@rolandfink2537 3 жыл бұрын

Can you Make Volga German dialect please

@ilovelanguages0124 3 жыл бұрын

I need a volunteer.

@TheDovahkiin97 3 жыл бұрын

Hallo i bims reingemoved 😂

@andreashoeverman3817 3 жыл бұрын

Where can someone learn this kind of German? I speak standard German but it would be interesting to learn a bit of the American German dialects.

@mish3378 3 жыл бұрын

HOLY MOLY

@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 2 жыл бұрын

des iss so indresding zu heere! Ich kann en Bissel Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch schwetze, bikas mei Grossmaem hot es gschwetzt, awwer sie hot mei Mudder un ich net gelannt. Ich bin es am Lanne, so as Familiyebicher zu lese.

@gothiko27 3 жыл бұрын

I know it was lowkey hating on Texas german, but I am a Texas german speaker and I never forget about my Midwestern german speakers. Gruess aus Texas!

@Ian-dn6ld 3 жыл бұрын

Loooooool ich bin tot😂 aber fürwahr tun die alle oft denken, dass man nur deutsch in tx und Pennsylvania spricht und vergisst oder vor allem net wisst oder merken die towns, die mit deutschen Namen geheisst waren.

@obinator9065 3 жыл бұрын

Has some Midwestern German aspects to it

@ChaconnesAreFun2Play 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting on the Brooklyn Hasidic Yiddish video someday

@poggerspog1658 3 жыл бұрын

Cool German accent

@istvancsiszar1118 3 жыл бұрын

Are there in America people who indeed speak German as a quasi native language ??

@gwailou5 3 жыл бұрын

There were many people in America in the 20th century, but during WWI and WWII, German was heavily suppressed. At the time, German was the second most spoken language in America. Amish and other religious minorities of German origins still speak German as native language

@veenahatolkar6297 3 жыл бұрын

same question !

@camrendavis6650 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, German was the most spoken foreign language in America for over 200 years. In some states German was taught in schools, German culture blended with American culture, you had streets and towns with German names German holidays are also celebrated. That was until the first World war when the Germans were seen as the enemy. As a result many of the native Germans who lived in America had to go into hiding, changing their names, abandoning their culture and their language to avoid harassment and persecution. To this day there are more Americans with German ancestry (15%) than any other ethnic group. Even the irish (9%)

@fringeflix 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Most are from the Amish community and speak a separate dialect of German, like the one in the video. A great deal of them are in the east and midwest of the US. Because of our separation from the rest of the world, many languages that have come here from Europe have turned into new and distinct dialects.

@ulrichvonliechtenstein6138 3 жыл бұрын

@@fringeflix Pennsylvania Dutch, what the Amish speak is a lot different than the German in this video though.

@user-nc5yc9es6j 3 жыл бұрын

They still survived.

@DonTornado 2 жыл бұрын

Some of my ancestors probably spoke this dialect.

@rvdzst Жыл бұрын

Imagine stepping into a midwestern Saloon around 1870 and hearing hardly any US English, but ....... German! 😅 Prost!🍻

@djcarlos687 3 жыл бұрын

American German xD

@KurosheBozorg Жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit like Ruhrgerman

@user-fg1nv7tw1m 3 жыл бұрын

Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch und ich verstehe diese Dialekt

@prismaticc_abyss 3 жыл бұрын

@@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 its interesting because I know some people who would speak like this (in a very similar dialect) but almost noone would write like this to represent the dialect sounds.