The Secret German Dialect You Probably Didn't Know About 

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8:41 Germans more frequently say "Auto"

This channel is severely underrated. Love how easy I get his lessons.

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8:28 german word for squirrel is a mistake here

It sometimes hurts to listen to TheLingOtter´s pronunciation of German words. "Seil" would be in English spelling "zile" (he says "seal") and "Zaun" would be "tsown" (he says "zown"). "Eichkatze" for "squirrel" is regional Bavarian word. In colloquial German it is "Eichhörnchen".

Just FYI both common and proper nouns should be capitalized in German. Interestingly also, "Eichkatz" is still a very recognizable word because it stems from the Bavarian dialect which is rather famous

I believe that Pennsylvanian Dutch is called that because Germans refer to themselves as Deutsch which sounds like Dutch.

Ok i live in texas and on my momsside her ancestors knew him, and they immigrated to texas in the 1800s , yeah . However. Im the only one in my family thatbspeaks german.

8:10 small correction: usually "st" and "sp" are pronounced like "sht" and "shp" (except in hamburg)

I watch your videos a lot but this one is very hard because the constant moving is messing with my motion sickness : (

fun fact: theres a German dialect in Namibia (which was a former German colony) called Südwesterdeutsch/Namsläng/Namdeutsch as well as a German based Creole from Papua New Guinea (tho all the speakers now live in Australia iirc) called Unserdeutsch

would be cool to make this a series discussing the English X (insert language here) pigeons !! as a native russian speaker ive heard quite a lot about how russian evolved in the US in small communities all across rhe country :]

I love videos like that to be honest. Thank you for looking up the history and sharing. One thing tho, I think it would be cool if in videos about other languages, you could find a native speaker, maybe helping you with stuff like pronounciation or to give you more context that you might not find on the web. Or maybe even spotting editing errors like the Eichhörnchen one. I am honestly not sure if that is too much to ask tho. But I bet there are people willing to help you in stuff like that for free. I for example wouldn't mind helping, should you ever wanna make another word about German language, and I bet I wouldn't be the only one. In any way, I am excited to see more videos of you and your cute otter avatar!

Ah, a weird mix between English and German what a beauty to behold

Note that Luftschiff is a word that also finds use in standard high german, it's just used for stuff like fantasy airships instead of real life planes.

Weird because I was born, raised, and still live in Texas and I have German in me from on my dads side. I was told my great grandmother could only speak German AND when I tried the free part of ancestry it told me that she was born here and I was very confused. This could be part of my history and I’m kinda freaking out because I hardly know anything about my background ❤

As someone that is from Oldenburg, I‘m always surprised how many people from my city have had some kind of effect on history

Went to Texas for a month. Didn't meet anyone who spoke Texas Germans, but met many Americans w. German ancestry, who learned High German as their second language.

8:40 More commonly the standard high german word for car would be "Auto", Wagen is a more general term for things with wheels.

Guy ran a boarding house in New York. Bought a large plot of land. He really did embezzle that post office money

just wanna say i hope you never stop uploading ❤

Going by the thumbnail: Texas German? What I find astonishing listening to Texas-German is the accent. There's not a lot of English phonology that has creeped in. Vocabulary, yes, but the diction is surprisingly pure.

5:29 Dachshund is pronounced "daak-snd." I never made the connection until very recently; they always existed separately in my mind. Cool video--I'm really liking the longer form content!

6:25 you forgot about Yiddish in New York

I feel like Texas German is really well known. If you want a German dialect that actually few people know look to Namibia

My Oma (grandma) fled to the USA from Germany during WW2, and she settled along with a lot of other Germans and Slovenians in Northeast Ohio, where there is still a large population to this day. Not many still speak the language, and I wonder how much anti-german rhetoric had to do with it, as I never learned the language, and neither did my dad.

8:27 the german word wasn't changed, the actual German word is "Eichhörnchen"

"Eichkatze" ('Oachkatzl', to be precise) for 'squirrel' exists in German, in the Bavarian dialect/language.

This is a really interesting video. I enjoyed it! I will say, though, that I thought that the sponsor segue was a bit weird. It doesn't quite sit right with me. Aside from that, I'm always fascinated by communities who migrate all across the world like this! Thanks for the vid!

In Brazil there are around a million people whose native language is a form of German, namely the Hunsrik language in the south.

If it wasn't for the World Wars, I really wonder how many people would still speak German in the US

If I remember correctly, there were a lot of German immigrants in Michigan and they regularly spoke german to each other. Then in 1940, they all magically forgot it and only spoke english from then on. They are responsible for the town of Fowler and the high number of Thelens in the area.

8:28 I don't think the right one is supposed to read 'stinkkatze' for 'squirrel'.

Wymysorys is a pretty funky language

I grew up (as an English-speaker) in Pennsylvania Dutch country, and knew heritage speakers there. I was surprised recently to hear it spoken in Western Montana! The story isn't a surprising one; Amish migrants from PA to MT and so forth. But their Montana dialect of German is the same as the one in PA. The migration is recent enough that things haven't changed much.

see what you can find about the La Crete dialect in northern Alberta, locally called Germish

You also have Texan Silesian, Siberian Masurian, and Brazilian Polish.

8:28 there is a mistake it should be Eichhörnchen and not stinkkatze

1:27 you said new york city but the animation shows the middle of texas

I probably should learn thag dialect instead of "german" German (although i live in Germany, i think it be easier to me, because Texas dialect seems to have words more similar to English than the "German" german)

Damn. I knew about czech-texasan, now texas-german…if someone adds poland the jokes might be magnificent😂😂

i hate that i mostly understand that clip of texas dutch you play…because i know a decent amount of dutch :')

You mispronounced the heck of of those town names lol. No hate I still love your content

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Liberty Pups would be way preferable over Dachshund, cause 1. The name is massively outdated, nobody uses them to hunt badgers anymore. They're referred to as Dackel now. And 2. At least the anglophones could pronounce liberty pup. It kinda hurts how y'all butcher the word Dachshund

neustadtgödens is pronounced like "noy-shtaht-gir-dens" btw :)

Absolutely a great video. Although your pronunciation needs some work :P But i believe that everybody understands that you do your best in pronouncing it in a proper way. :D I would really like to speak with somebody who "only" learned texas german or pennsylvania dutch to see how much i understand :D If youre able to find someone, i'm willing to try to have a conversation in german :D

There's also Texas silesian

My family literally came back to Germany after some years... my great granny still has an accent but that's it

Finnish American culture is almost gone, but the story is similar, and use alot of outdated words, like nisu which is a desert, but modern finns call that pulla now, or skorpers (which is like a cinnamon bread, I dont the modern finn name)

Oh huh, I thought pa was the only large population of German speakers in the us

Hey what’s up can you I’m trying to learn Spanish what’s the most important knowledge I should know about language learning

Okay, this makes no sense and I love it

I swear almost every European language has a Texas dialect at this point

In the past there was a serbian community also

I saw the title and thumbnail and was like "wtf I've known about Texas German for the better part of a decade" Save me from my own smartassery please

Meanwhile the East Prussian & Silesian German dialects: ☠

Please have a short listen to how words are pronounced before pronouncing them yourself! You don't need to get it perfect, but it's obvious you didn't research the pronunciation and I feel like for a (monetized!) linguistics channel those couple extra minutes aren't too much to ask :)

Maybe slow down a bit with the editing, it feels scarily fast.

People refusing to say German words will never not be funny

Silly Otter, I'm subscribed to linguistics youtube channels. Of course I've heard of it! But good video nonetheless. 😊

Eichhorn*

America having anti nazi sentiment while doing things nazi did is so america 4:37

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 🇩🇪🫡 Edit: und Texas ebenfals!

I'm so confused. Your German pronunciation is sometimes really good (like you pronounce the '-ch' in words like "Bach" and "Richter" perfectly), and yet you also make some pretty basic mistakes, like not pronouncing the "j" and "w" like "y" and "v", respectively (*cough* "Johann" and "Wagen" *cough*). It's as if you did research into how to perfect the difficult aspects of German pronunciation, without even knowing the basics 😭

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Nooooooooooo not the Germans 😭🙏

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