How to Use Pennsylvania Dutch in a Sentence

Pennsylvania Dutch

noun

• Eythana Miller on working to preserve Pennsylvania Dutch.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
• Miller learned Pennsylvania Dutch just as the people around her began to use it less in everyday conversation.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
• Its main language was Pennsylvania Dutch, as in almost all Amish communities.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
• English started to be used more frequently in Libby, alongside Pennsylvania Dutch.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
• There’s also an element of privacy to speaking Pennsylvania Dutch.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
• The Strasburg Train offers a stunning ride through Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
• Documenting many varieties is a way to not just share the language, but to illustrate how dialects of Pennsylvania Dutch differ and maybe even fill in each other’s gaps.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
• My interviewees’ level of comfort speaking in Pennsylvania Dutch for longer stretches of time, in a fairly formal setting, varies greatly.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
• There are other reasons for the stigma attached to Pennsylvania Dutch, including that the language is almost exclusively used orally.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
• In 2008, there was a first young person in the Libby community to marry someone who didn’t speak Pennsylvania Dutch.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026
• The first rides departed in 1832, taking travelers through the breathtaking scenery in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
• Fisher's Amish roots and ability to speak Pennsylvania Dutch, the Old Order Amish dialect, have helped build rapport with like-minded musicians.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2026
• My younger sisters, for example, often don’t use the traditional sentence construction in Pennsylvania Dutch; their syntax mirrors English a lot more than older speakers.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
• Fascinated by the transition away from traditionalism, Miller launched an oral history project to document Pennsylvania Dutch.
  — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
• Fisher’s Amish roots and ability to speak Pennsylvania Dutch, the Old Order Amish dialect, has helped build rapport with likeminded musicians.
  — ABC News, 1 May 2026
• Long before cheesesteaks and Tastykakes, the German-speaking Pennsylvania Dutch, who first settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the 17th century, established a cuisine—influenced by their German heritage and agrarian society—that still thrives in the region today.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2020