Download or read book The Pennsylvania German English - the Language of the Pennsylvania Germans written by Kirsten Vera Van Rhee and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The long persistence of Pennsylvania German English for nearly two centuries in an English-speaking territory which was settled by English, Scotch-Irish and Welsh as early as by Germans, naturally brought about a certain contact between English and German language that influenced both, the generally spoken English and the specific dialect formation that languages borrowed from each other"--Back cover