A region that speaks a Texan German dialect

[@d.7416]

Texas german sounds VERY similar to Plattdeutsch, the dialect of northern germany. Interesting: the saxons who conquered britain (anglo saxons) and whose german is the basis for english, lived in northern Germany, so english and plattdeutsch are more similar than german and english in general. Example: i have forgotten = ik hav vorgoten (Plattdeutsch) and= ich habe vergessen (standard german).

[@fspo1112]

The basis for English is actually closer to Dutch than the Saxon dialects that served as the basis for the modern German language. The language that was brought to Britain were Germanic dialects from the North Sea by the Netherlands.

[@邵屹文]

@@fspo1112 Dutch is a Low Franconian Language.

[@kastanie7445]

Sorry, but it doesn't sound like Plattdeutsch at all 😂 it sounds almost like standard German with a heavy texan accent and a few grammatical peculiarities adopted from English

[@donquixotedoflamingo5510]

That's not true! the Saxons might've conquered england but linguistically they're closest to Frisian (Netherlands). Even genetically speaking English are mostly native britons that lived in the isles for over 10,000 years, the saxons somewhat mingled but didn't replace the population they conquered they were still outnumbered. Those natives were almost identical to Spain's and France's natives at the time, that's why the English today are genetically closer to the French and Spanish than they are to the Germans

[@邵屹文]

@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Frisian is not Dutch

[@weisthor0815]

shows friesenhaus, bavarian music playing with bavarian wall decorations. only in the united states :D

[@Jonas-ct6yv]

weisthor0815 dat tut weh, un ik bin een ostfrees,

[@ZenFox0]

weisthor0815 Alle deutschsprachigen Länder vermischen sich in der amerikanischen Vorstellung.

[@JGunnels89]

I actually know the owners of this restaurant, not well, but I was friends with their sons wife for a while. They did have some great food. It's been years.

[@weisthor0815]

@@ZenFox0 nicht wirklich. die amerikaner haben ihre deutschen eindrücke meist aus bayern mitgebracht, weil es die ehemalige us-besatzungszone war.

[@ZenFox0]

weisthor0815 Ja, stimmt.

[@hansweit7502]

Liebe Freunde in Texas lasst euch nur nicht irre machen sondern macht euer Ding so wie ihr wollt sowohl in der Sprache als auch in den Traditionen dabei wünsche ich euch alles Liebe und Gute.

[@maxferreiroMop]

For me as german. Its incredible that you celebrate your heritage still taosay peace and love

[@pv-peters9405]

Das sollten wir Deutschen als Volk in unserem Land, Deutschland ,auch machen und uns von meist Linksradikalen, anti-deutschen Etno-Masochisten, unsere sehr reichhaltige Kultur, unser reiches historisches Erbe, sowie uns als Deusche Natio mit millionenfachen kulturfremden Einflüssen, auflösen lassen. Kultur-und Heimatliebe ist nicht rechtsextrem, sondern ein Menschenrecht.

[@donybrosco]

ich finde das texas deutsch ist sehr gut zu verstehen. as a german ,texas german is easy to understand. grüsse aus deutschland und einen guten rutsch

[@jaqenhghar2970]

musst ja aber "as *a* German" schreiben, sonst geht's nicht.

[@donybrosco]

@@jaqenhghar2970 jo richtig. habe es verbessert. danke nochmal

[@angelobrinkord2204]

Dude super easy to understand

[@rustymason3860]

Ich wohne in Texas und kann sie gut verstehen, kein Problem.

[@justjen9002]

Rusty Mason Yeah, me too

[@werewurst]

Ich dachte, deutsch wäre in den USA nach dem Krieg verboten worden.

[@Jacob-hr2vf]

Me too

[@kenruns]

Ich auch, aber ich komme aus Kalifornien und habe vierzig Jahre in Japan gewohnt.

[@mrshipofsteam1161]

@@kenruns Wie war es in Japan zu leben?

[@linajurgensen4698]

This makes me very happy as a German!😊

[@lordstronghold7189]

Und ich freue mich immer The Witcher Fans in Kommentaren zu sehen.

[@timholtzclaw8930]

Ya

[@pfdrtom]

My favorite Tex-German word is stinkkatzen! The Germans had no word for skunk so they made one up! (Correct me if I'm wrong, it's just what Oma told me)

[@d4n4nable]

That being said, the continental German word for a skunk is "Stinktier." So no less ridiculous.

[@Hoffmansk]

Stinktier...

[@Ian-dn6ld]

I hope you still see this 😬 Stinkkatze is just an older word that isn’t really used in Germany anymore and the word is actually found in most of all german Americans’ vocabularies in some form. In southern Indiana in some of the counties it’s “Stinkkotz.” In other Swiss communities like up north in Wisconsin, it’s “Stinkchaatz.” with the really scratchy throat sound.

[@JonsDrng]

That's right

[@pfdrtom]

@@windows95_de Thanks!

[@Tristinthereviewguy2003]

I have a new respect for Texas

[@RexKarrs]

"Luftschiff" isn't so much "airboat" as "airship," and in Germany would refer to a lighter-than-air dirigible (a Zeppelin).

[@brennis_the_menace3414]

I can understand it in a different way. I took 4 years of German in high school, so far I just have trouble speaking it but I can for sure hear it and pick apart a sentence. I was once on a Amtrak train sitting near some kind of Amish family and weirdly found myself easily understanding them in a weird way.

[@garyodle5663]

Where in Texas is this? I know Fredericksburg, Texas has a strong German heritage but I didn't here German spoken there. Where was this video made?

[@marafolse8347]

Gary Odle seems to be new braunfels

[@1daddy57]

It's outside in the farmlands of Fredricksburg...Borne...Seguin (more Czech out that way)...

[@nofatherfigure69420]

2000 people speak texas german now

[@giostisskylas]

Hätte ich in die USA auswandern MÜSSEN, wäre ich auf jeden Fall nach Texas gegangen. Allein schon wegen des kulturellen Erbe der Texas German.

[@Kikolino_Nico]

Texas ist mir, seitdem ich das weiß auch wesentlich sympathischer geworden ^^ Angenehm.

[@johnyfive8484]

wouldn't it be nice if there were subtitles?

[@johnyfive8484]

in English i mean!

[@mockingbirdarmada]

Takeaways: the war stigmatized the German language and it was effectively forbidden to speak in America (culturally). This resulted in fewer and fewer speakers of "Texas German," a unique dialect partially influenced by English and Spanish. The guy with the website is part of a project to preserve it. My German is not good enough to translate verbatim but hope that helps.

[@Lellobeetle]

My Grandfather came to the USA on one of the last rigged sailing ships in the early 1920's at the age of 19. He came through Ellis Island, joined the US Army to obtain citizenship faster. He settled in Texas and met my grandmother, of German decent who spoke German as a child before she spoke English. My mother was born in 1931 and she said during the war she and her friends would tease sometimes and yell a German word and my grandfather would be furious because he was frightened of speaking German publicly. She said he only spoke German with a couple other German immigrants when they were deep in conversation very quietly inside a room in the house. He never taught his children to speak German. My mother had cousins in Germany who fought on the side of the Axis powers during World War II, but her brother was in the Market Garden invasion and his plane was shot down over Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His plane couldn't maintain altitude, which is what saved his life because the Nazis were machine gunning the troops parachuting but he fell so fast he was saved, but his leg was broken. He was hidden by a Dutch family until the American troops could advance enough for him to be evacuated. I'm proud of my German heritage, and I love being a native of a great state.

[@benstephens5207]

The translations are in the description, if you bothered to read it. It has list of all the shots used in the video, and where there is speaking, it is translated to English.

[@TodayFreedom]

The man with the glasses is the only person I’ve heard on KZbin speaking Texas German the way it was ACTUALLY spoken by his parents’ generation. Virtually NONE of the people in the other videos were ever fluent in the dialect, and are actually just using a handful of basic statements they can remember from childhood. That man, on the other hand, is probably one of the 0.1% who were fluent in the past two decades or so. If you want to know what Texas German really sounded like- it sounded like that man.

[@stagedive516]

Interesting, sounds like she is saying "mir wussten gar nix von das Wort Bach". Is "mir" used in place of "wir", similar to Cologne German saying "ma"? And I have to assume the declension completely faded (or was never there in the first place) if she said "von das Wort". Can anyone point me to resources on this?

[@clausstimpfig3803]

leider zu leise ich habe nichts verstanden

[@mihanich]

they speak clearly a Low German dialect but dress up und present themselves as if they were bavarians. Looks awkward to me.

[@lula626gt]

ja, bayrische friesen. wtf. aber interessant.

[@motstraumen]

They clearly speak a High German dialect...I hear no Platt oder NiederDüütsch. I do hear dialect and perhaps that is what Germans mean by Low German today.

[@mihanich]

mannjen motstraumen ja vielleicht hab ich mich mit dem Plattdeutsch geirrt, aber klar ist dass sie keinen oberdeutschen Dialekt sprechen. ihre Mundart hört sich etwas wie entweder eine mitteldeutsche oder gar wie platt-gefärbtes Hochdeutsch an.

[@FromDuskTillDawn1992]

hört sich schon süddeutsch an, eher südwesten :" wir HAM immernoch deutsch gesprochen zuhause " denke das liegt daran, dass sie so viel englisch reden, dann hört es sich irgendwie norddeutsch an, aber solche merkmale wie" ham - haben " oder " verboden - verboten " und "krieg - kriech ", also ich würde auf Pfälzisch tippen, glaube es sind viele damals aus der Pfalz eingewandert, so wie Trumps Großvater auch. Spricht schon für süddeutsch, komme selber aus baden-württemberg und wir sprechen hier auch so, zumindest "mir ham- wir haben ist schon süddeutsch. Letztendlich ist Pfälzisch kein Oberdeutscher Dialekt , aber Süddeutsch schon, Bayern sins aber trotzdem ned :D denke mal Bayern ist Stereotyp für Deutschland und damit können sie halt ihrem Deutschsein Ausdruck verleihen.

[@d4n4nable]

Es ist eine Mischung vieler unterschiedlicher Dialekte. Es gibt klare Zeichen für Niederdeutsche Einflüsse, aber auch für Westdeutsche/Allemannische.

[@blackleaf_yt]

I believe I have been to this town once. There is also a similar one in south Carolina

[@calamus80]

Sehr interessant 👍👍👍

[@angelobrinkord2204]

The man said' during and after the war german language was generally forbidden' correct me if im wrong please

[@ggkitchener1122]

Friesia is not only in Germany

[@kreed1004]

I am curious who these immigrants were and why they came to Texas and when.

[@christiankneupper7011]

Long story basically 21 nobles form the Duchy of Nassau met in Mainz to try and invest land in the newly formed republic of Texas in 1842. They created the Aldersverein which was a company designed to bring people to Germany and buy up land in Texas and create a colony. Didn't really go anywhere until a Prussian Bureaucrat named John O Mosebach managed to convince 4000 germans to move to New Braunfels (Nue Braunfels). In 1844 Then the Revolution of 1848 broke out and a lot of the liberal minded Germans who were fleeing the war were like hey let's go to this german speaking community in Texas that would be great. Then in 1852 the Aldervsverein folded and there were about 20,000 Germans living in Texas.

[@chuckfriebe843]

@@christiankneupper7011 you mean "Neu" Braunfels.

[@FW2F]

so there are videos about texas german - but all i hear is german or english explanations about it. i don't care! let me hear the stuff.

[@MT-qt9mw]

Auf wiedersehn ya'll, catch ya later at that zwiefacher thing on thurzzzday....

[@gabrielus123gabby]

Mega geil

[@Marcel38281]

Das ist irgendwie wie wie ein Ostfriesischer ,sächsischer und englischer Akzent gemischt

[@HafdirTasare]

Friesenhaus in Texas JA MOIN!

[@DavontheViper]

Mit bayrischer Deko 😂

[@texasisfortexans7170]

Proud to be Texan German

[@linajurgensen4698]

@A Big Lion anglo saxons come from Germany.

[@averagebodybuilder]

I suppose that since there are no objections to them speaking German their should be no objection to other Texans speaking Spanish!

[@ZenFox0]

Hey, it’s a free country.

[@ZenFox0]

Matt G Are you saying it’s not a free country? Why should people have to speak English? (other than for their own economic advancement and well-being)

[@marcks-3980]

@@mattg2383 Exactly. They also assimilated into English/American culture far more easily. Even when it was prohibited to speak German in public, they took it in stride. Imagine if we did that to those coming up from south of the border? I see a ton of signs that are in both English and Spanish all over the place, just look at any Walmart. We don't tell them to not speak Spanish in public like we did to the native German speakers of Texas. If we did that there'd be horrific outrage, since it wouldn't be "politically correct". Texas German has much more of a right to be preserved, as there are less and less speakers in existence. The Texas German identity has a right to exist and flourish.

[@LadyxBleu]

@@mattg2383 Texas used to be Mexico. We were here long before Texas was an English speaking part of the US. Half my family speaks Spanish and we have members on the other side who speak Texasdeutch. There's room for everyone. The only people we don't want in Texas? Bigots.

[@LadyxBleu]

@@marcks-3980 P.S, my mother was literally WHIPPED for speaking Spanish in school, in a region that had only been part of the US for a few generations. Don't think we weren't told not to speak Spanish. Our cultural landscape is improved when language is MORE diverse, not less.

[@michaelgarrett2298]

New Braunfels TX.

[@angelobrinkord2204]

Du kommen here und sprech Texas deutsch?

[@evanmcdonald5075]

Hat wirklich auch hessische Einflüsse

[@DavontheViper]

Hab mir jetzt paar Videos angesehen und da ist definitiv was hessisches drin.

[@dan-ps5rt]

I don't even know german and I saw the whole video

[@mrpaddy3318]

Um die deutsche Kultur leben zu dürfen sollte man vielleicht dort hin auswandern.

[@grosserplins]

Was darfst du denn hier nicht ausleben?

[@Wiesel1]

Ja, das Deutsche ist unter deutschen Nachfahren im Ausland viel höher angesehen und wird mehr gepflegt, als in Deutschland selbst.

[@7schlafer886]

@@Wiesel1 ja, deswegen stirbt das Texas deutsch zur Zeit aus

[@ahah11ful]

Bavarian Music awesome.

[@christhomas1289]

ich will lernen texan deutsch!

[@BicyclesMayUseFullLane]

@u.s old glory Ah yes, the SOV + V2 word order. Fun times.

[@chuckfriebe843]

"Ich werde Texas Deutsch lernen."

[@88_Delta]

Heiligs Blechle😱

[@guccipucci3941]

Schade, manche von denen Sprechens halt echt aber die anderen Faken hart für die Kamera

[@peteraurel3900]

jaschon

[@texasisfortexans7170]

yall out of staters stop moving to New Braunfels

[@peg7929]

Keep speaking Texas German or the dialect will be lost. 😢

[@FashionistaDesigner]

Yummy!!;-))

[@patrickr6505]

FashionistaDesigner Yummy to you.💞

[@MysleZe]

How many nazis came there?

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

None

[@MysleZe]

@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136I don't think so...

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

@@MysleZe Maybe some who worked for the US governement but the Texas Germans were not nazis

[@JavierValverde-dw7cy]

​@@MysleZeThey came in the 19th Century, 100 years before the Nazi regime.

[@jahrn692]

They came around the 1830s…

[@totilalauterwald9408]

Barzi Music im Friesenhaus. DO stimmt wat nich. Liebe Leute da in Texas. Wenn ihr eure Kultur behalten wollt müsst ihr das auch richtig machen. Friesen sind keine Lederhosen Barzis. All klor.

[@jonah3240]

totila lauterwald richtig

[@justicefonfara17]

Sorry it's not a real dialect there are 250 different dialect and only 20 of them are being used

[@LadyxBleu]

Language experts would disagree with you, you can contact them at any of the Texas universities where they are conducting research on Texas German.

[@rauljimenez1508]

nach de kriech

[@drovid008]

Imagine seeing this place and thinking “I know what this place needs: MORE MEXICANS”

[@ZenFox0]

I’m sure that’s what Native Americans thought when Spanish, French, English, Scots, Irish, Dutch, and German settlers started showing up. “I know what this place needs: MORE EUROPEANS”.

[@marcks-3980]

@@ZenFox0 They were already thinking that about each of their own tribes already. Most of them were fighting amongst themselves far before and long after Europeans came to this country anyway.

[@slaonestephens7575]

@@marcks-3980 yes they were so happy about the genocide. And there was no war between Europeans ?

[@MegaTimebomb098]

Just say ur racist and move along