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Pennsylvania Dutch
The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of German-speaking immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many from the Palatinate, other south-western German lands and Switzerland; "Dutch" derives from "Deutsch". They include Lutheran and Reformed church people as well as Amish, Mennonites and other Anabaptists, and some still speak Pennsylvania German, a dialect of largely Palatine origin.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pennsylvania Dutch. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pennsylvania-dutch
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- “Pennsylvania Dutch.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pennsylvania-dutch. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Pennsylvania Dutch.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pennsylvania-dutch.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pennsylvania-dutch (Accessed: ).
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