The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts is piloting a program to get native Pennsylvania Dutch speakers certified as court interpreters. For the first time, Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking ...

Many people falsely assume Pennsylvania Dutch was historically spoken only by Old Order Amish and Mennonites, said Bradley K. Smith, archivist and associate director of the Berks History Center.

Instead, "Dutch" is a corruption of "Deutsch," meaning German, and most of the early immigrants came from the German-speaking parts of Europe. Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, too, is heavily German ...

According to Babble.com, approximately 400,000 people in the U.S. and Canada speak Pennsylvania Dutch and the U.S. Census shows that the population of people who identify as Pennsylvania Dutch has ...

Even so, she adds, "I love to hear Pennsylvania Dutch being spoken around me and hope that someday I will be around it more, and more comfortable speaking it again. For me, it means I am home." ...

"We hope that they, first and foremost, have an enjoyable time hearing and speaking the PA German language," Mary Laub of Maxatawny said in a statement. The Pennsylvania German (Dutch) Fersommling ...

Pennsylvania Dutch, derived from Palatine German ... participants memorized legal terms and honed their English speaking and writing skills, learning basic concepts such as synonyms, antonyms ...