German reacts to "Volga-German Dialect"

[@BrookieWookieBee]

This kind of makes sense why my German language teacher hated my accent. My family is Volga German. They immigrated to the USA in 1906. Since they had their own community, very few spoke English up until those born here went to school then English trickled in.

[@wuverrabbit]

yes, but unlike Germans who lives in Germany, they spoke the German they knew without it evolving. This can also be said about the Black Sea German Russians. They spoke German from when they immigrated which is vastly different than the evolved German of say the 1910's when some immigrated to the Dakotas. So it's not uncommon why germans can't understand them. It's like old english to the english that has been evolved now. It's extremely hard to understand what is being said. They say the Russian of the early 1900's to the Russian now is literally impossible to understand.

[@nickb8618]

Gonna guess your family ended up in the United States like mine as czar Nicholas the 2nd started persecuting Volga Germans

[@BrookieWookieBee]

@@nickb8618 they came just before Stalin started picking them off. They saw which way the wind was blowing.

[@greenbelly2008]

I´m Argentine and once my parents met a Volga German couple living in Canada and they could have a chat with them in German perfectly well, I could have the chance to practice my English though since my German is very poor

[@hannahschilling5378]

Yes same!

[@tomsitzman3952]

I live in the middle of America. I'm sorry I don't speak German. Many of the Germans who moved to Russland spoke a German heard in the Rone mountains in 1760. near Folda. It is a language frozen in time. The village in America (Lincoln, Nebraska) where I grew ups was 3 klm long and 1.5 klm wide. With five Lutheran churches. All the families in the village were from the Kanton of Frank in the Volga Republic. In Germany and later along the Volga my family name was Zitzmann In America our family change the spelling to Sitzman. Many of the families in our village changed the spelling of their names to make it easier for the Americans to say. MY village is inside the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, but we preferred to live and pray together. I now live in a large city of Omaha, Nebraska USA. Up until the 1970s there were five German newspapers in Omaha Each in a different German dialect.

[@stephen1991]

I’m from Des Moines, I didn’t realize there were German language paper still being published that close to here.

[@blackpope1185]

I am a full on Volga German and I live in Germany. And this is very funny for me, but do mind not all Volga Germans speak like this. We also do this weird ''aa'' thing but not that much, we do the ''öh'' thing a lot, We say Daatch, instead of Deutch, Wir haben Daatch gespröhche. Or Traurig we say Traarig. And we use some Russian words and Germanize them. Like ''Fruits'' we call them ''Frücthie'' even though the official one is Obst or also Fruchtern but in Russian they say ''fruktiy'' and we also pronounce the R. We don't have der die das. We always say die. ''Die Frücthie die geschmöhcke gut'' And for example we use some Russian words, we say ''Otprovlehen'' when we want to say ''Versendet''. But I guess it's only some Volga Germans, I didn't meet many Volga Germans in my life who knew their dialect, but that is the way we speak in my family atleast. I've read some comments on here that live in North America and surprised that we are so wide spread. Just saying hello from Germany, From the Apfelhans on my behalf. 👋 ''Applejacks''

[@sauronsmundwinkel]

Bruder, Früchte und Obst are the same, eespecially in german x)

[@tomsitzman3952]

The Russ Deutch are wide spread in North America. Both in the middle of the USA and the prairie provinces of Canada. Most settled in the short grass prairie which in Russia is called Steppe. The Americans were not able to farm crops or raise cattle in this dry treeless country. The Volga Germans used their experience living in the short grass Steppes to raise crops and cattle where no one else could. Each Volga German village in Canada and in the USA are from the same village along the Volga. Each village along the Volga the settlers were from the same town or village in what is now Germany. That means that after hundreds of years our Baptisms are recorded in three different churches, in what is now Germany, Russia and North America. In my Village called by the locals "The Russen Bottoms" in the USA inside the City of Lincoln, Nebraska all 3,000 of us were related from my first cousins to my tenth cousins. Starting in the 1960s village life broke down and now "Our People" are Americanized and live all over the USA.

[@amirmohammadghanbari9575]

The fact that it doesn't have der die das makes it perfect😂😂😂

[@pierce5915]

lol interesting to hear! I am American but my family were Volga Germans who immigrated to North Dakota from Odessa in the early 1900's. My Grandpa was from a community of Germans in ND who all spoke this dialect before they moved West.

[@FridericoFrancisceum]

Lucky family. So many suffered so much hardship in Russia.

[@markvolker1145]

You should do video(s) on the different German dialects in the US. People dont reqlize that before the south American invasion of the US, the largest ancestry in the US was German so there are still many different German dialects here. Texas Deutsch, Pennsylvania Deutsch..

[@MrBeeMAD]

Interesting. Here in Kazakhstan we still have a huge German diaspora somewhere 200000. Some villages are totally German, they learn German at schools. And yes, German ordnung keeping these villages wealthy and beautiful. Huge respect for your people. Let's forget our obscurant past.

[@nikitaberejnoy4359]

А можете пожалуйста сказать какие деревни в КЗ с немецким большинством?

[@filipino437]

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[@alexanderjung7361]

Забудем только через суд Штрасбургский.

[@yeldos]

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[@Мэджик-и1ъ]

🇰🇿🥰

[@nickb8618]

My grandmothers family was Volga Germans. They immigrated to the United States after persecution by czar Nicholas the 2nd.

[@alexanderjung7361]

They were very lucky that they left the swamp, otherwise they would be destroyed in the 162 Soviet concert ration camps.

[@e.kaufmann4718]

meine Oma spricht es immernoch. Der Dialekt ist mir so vertraut. 😍

[@greenbelly2008]

I´m Argentine of Volga German descent like Heinze (Argentine footballer) or Sergio Denis (he was an Argentine singer whose surname was Hoffmann). My parents used to speak a Volga German dialect at home when they didn´t want me to understand what they were saying. They used to pronounce "Die Leute" as "Die Leit". Once we met a Volga German man from Canada and my parents could have a chat with him in their German dialect. I could only do it in English since my German is very poor, not fluent at all. I should have learned German before learning English since German is more difficult to learn for me.

[@oliviao3686]

I live in Sud Tirol, Italy. They sone similar words, including Leit

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany

[@tomsitzman3952]

All languages are interesting. Up until the 1970s German colleges professors would come to Nebraska USA, to study old German dialects no longer spoken in Germany. In the mountains of the East Coast of the USA there are areas where the country people still speak English from the 1700's. I remember back in the 1950's when the old Volga Germans would walk to church on Sunday speaking Volga German, as they entered the church grounds they switched to High German. On the church grounds they only spoke High German.

[@casrai1]

To know old French from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to Quebec/Canada. To know old Dutch from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to South Africa. To know old German from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to the United States, Canada and Russia

[@PichaelProductions216]

Thank you for covering this. I am an American with Volga German roots. My ancestors migrated to Kansas around 1876. They settled in Western Central Kansas. My grandma spoke the dialect.

[@superduck6456]

Where’d they settle in Kansas? My grandmas family settled in Herzog aka now-Victoria, and my grandpa’s family settled in Rush County near Liebenthal. I’m from Hays.

[@megatonleviathanofficial]

Same. My grandfather Vernon Reuscher moved from Kansas to Lodi California in the 30’s , I have a book that talks about the journey from Norka and settling in Kansas, Nebraska and Canada.

[@PichaelProductions216]

@megatonleviathanofficial I also had a grandpa Vernon! That also my middle name. You got any books you can recommend on the subject?

[@matthewfischer3312]

As a descendant of a Volga German in the California, this is fascinating. None of this was passed down to me and I never even knew there was a Volga German dialect. Thanks for posting this.

[@skitzseattle]

My grandparents were Wolgadeutsche on one side (Aus Franken on the other) originally from Stuttgart area (Urbach). My grandfather described it as Allemanisch. Having only Hochdeutsch via American schools; I could not understand him (Nor the Franken). RIP Opa Walfred

[@charlie.12653]

Rip

[@petretepner8027]

It's Rheinfränkisch of one sort or another. Compare Central Hessian baad=beide , Schdaab=Staub, Fraad=Freude

[@th60of]

Absolutely. Hessian speaker here with links to the Palatinate: I had no trouble at all understanding the dialect.

[@sovietonion5256]

As a Russian I understood Konn as horse (I think) because in Russian horse is Konn (last n is soft) and they live in Russia sooo. Anyway love the vids on both channels!

[@ulrichrenner6256]

Gailje (Gaul in standard German) was the word that means "bad horse", "konn" is German "kann", English "can" in that sentence.

[@wolodimirmelnik9007]

Конн переводится как - может. А Конь это Кааул в Южнонемецком Гааул.

[@zendavesta1027]

It sounds more like Dutch with its typical word stretching

[@unioncityman63]

Didn’t know you had another KZbin channel😀 stumbled across looking up „German Kansas“ and this was in search videos. Of course I subscribed.😀

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

it's just an experiment, but people seem to enjoy watching reaction videos^^

[@unioncityman63]

@@TheGermanAmbassador yea, they are really popular all over KZbin I have been noticing

[@fredbehn9287]

Interesting topic. Thanks. I enjoy hearing about the history and development of language. Although they're all gone now, it would have been interesting to see how the Plattdeutsch spoken by the northern Germans who migrated to central Wisconsin in the late 1800's would sound to you today. My Grandmother who migrated here from Kirch Baggendorf in 1892 spoke heavy Plattdeutsch as did my Mother. My Grandmother lived to be 100, so I had the opportunity while growing up to listen to both her and my Mother. My current day German friends from the north of Germany speak jokingly of the problems they have yet today understanding some of the southern dialects.

[@ldsmusician]

I appreciate you doing this. I am a Canadian with some Volga German ancestry.

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

my pleasure^^

[@karrycat10]

Same here, Im around 60% Volga German

[@ceeroberts2469]

As full-blooded Wolgadeutsche, I aware our language is archaic and dying out. My father could speak with ease to Amish or Mennonite people, since they spoke a similar dialect. From what I have been told Wolgadeutsche left Germany for Russia at approximately the same time as many as their ancestors left for the USA. My brother and father often argued over the correct words, my father speaking low or middle low and my brother speaking advanced high German in college. They couldn't even agree on the word for "devil." It's a shame, once it's gone...it's gone, regardless whether or not it is appreciated, it was spoken in Germany once upon a time in the 17th Century.

[@chrissmith-td3iu]

germany has tons of dialects, each region has their own unique dialects, slangs,words,phrases etc. High German is simply the "official dialect" of school and business. I guess its the same like in USA they have school english then you get southerners saying "yall" and "upside your head" etc

[@edwinwarkentin2024]

Hi! Nice try. The ancestors of the Wolga Germans mostly came from the central German regions of Hesse and the Palatinate. So the Wolgataitsch is a mixture of both. Mir hänn k'pabbld.

[@barlazyjj7872]

My mother's side of the family is Volga German. My great-grandparents settled in Nebraska. I remember my grandparents could still speak it. I'm going to share this video with them!

[@drewg7036]

My grandfather had Black Sea German ancestry. Weirdly enough, he was catholic, from a catholic village near Odessa, Ukraine, but our surname is mostly found within the Lutheran communities. His grandfathers family began to leave due to discrimination and most of them left for Argentina, since Catholics were more welcome there, but he followed his wifes family to the USA, who were settling in North Dakota. But he never made it to North Dakota. They immigrated to Havana, Cuba, since the US had an immigration moratorium at the time, then to New Orleans, and they stayed in New Orleans.

[@aidanpetersen8425]

Hallo! Thank you for doing a video in both english + german so I can understand :) I'm half German ancestry (mainly from Volga German roots) I'm learning hochdeutsch but should i try to learn this dialect instead haha?

[@Yoel_Āndria_Müller]

ja lernen ihn

[@Elmesiasdelgol2022]

My great-grandparents were Volga-German. Two of them 8 to be more precise. My paternal grandpa was a child of Volga-Germans during his life.

[@ricardoshuch2787]

The Wolgadeutschen (Volga Germans) spoke dialects of the middle of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate...

[@superduck6456]

My grandparents can still speak Volga German.

[@Terraceview]

There are similarities between Volga Deutch and Grunnigs, I could understand most of it with some Frysian thrown in. Awesome.

[@ArenaGamerX]

For me it sounds a lot like schwäbisch dialect, except they make a aa instead ei. But that Die Leute - die Leit sounds very familiar and schwäbsch. Maybe a lot of the Volga Germans came from the schwäbsch Area......

[@evelinaellend7750]

Genau. Most of the Volga Germans were deported from Schwaben . At least those who live or used to live in Kazakhstan

[@oliviao3686]

​@evelinaellend7750 what deportation are you talking about😅

[@railway187]

There were also German and Dutch settlers in the neighbourhood of Irkutsk. I wonder how their German sounds.

[@justiceforall007]

My Grandma and Great Aunts were Volga German who settled in Fresno, California after emigrating from Russia.

[@alexanderjung7361]

It's a shame that not everyone could find space there.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany

[@plentyonions]

soviet germans are one of the most persecuted minorities of the 20th century...he is talking about volga germans who were only a third of the soviet german population before ww2..in fact 400 000 germans lived in ukraine and would have spoken different german dialects to the volga germans

[@alexanderjung7361]

There are no Soviet Germans. The Germans were kept in slavery in the Soviet Union until 1979. The number of Germans in Ukraine that you write about is due to famine and mass shootings of Germans. In 1937, 55,000 Germans were shot in the Odessa and Nikolayev regions.

[@oliviao3686]

​@alexanderjung7361 please give references to the resources of your statements, links And references

[@plentyonions]

@o3686 a few good books to look at for english speakers..from katherine to khruschev by adam giesinger, years of great silence by j otto pohl soviet germans: past and present by ingeborg fleischhauer and voices from the gulag by ulrich mertens

[@casrai1]

To know old French from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to Quebec/Canada. To know old Dutch from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to South Africa. To know old German from the 17th and 18th centuries, you have to go to the United States, Canada and Russia etc... It is funny

[@stephen1991]

My Volga German family, after about 150 years on the Volga, immigrated to northern Kansas. Apparently some branch went to Argentina to settle. My great aunts went from Kansas to CO. And OH. My grandfather also left KS for Ohio.

[@tzar9395]

Hey. My Volga German family after about the same amount of time migrated to the town of Lucas, Kansas in Russel County. They are the surname of Klein. They instead entered through Texas and moved northward into Kansas. My great-grandfather was the last in my family to speak German. He spoke the Volga dialect. But he never taught his kids. He moved to southern CA and the rest of his siblings and maybe cousins moved to CA after him. I probably have some relatives up in Lucas, but it is possible that you and I are related very distantly or our families knew each other. A major settling area in KS is Ellis County which is right next to Russel County, all in northern Kansas.

[@stephen1991]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we were related. My family moved there around 1763 and pretty much stayed in an area of Koller or Koehler, west of the Volga river. His name was Johannes Klug . One of my grandfathers sister had moved to the US and sent for the rest of the family in 1912. They arrived in the Wamingo KS area and my Grandfather married a daughter of similar German immigrants in 1915. One of his sisters moved to Logan county CO, the other to Summit county Ohio.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany

[@neospoilershow2708]

I am from Ohio and I am Black Sea German! My great grandma was born in North Dakota then came to Ohio with her husband(my great grandpa)from Michigan

[@janvanaardt3773]

I am Afrikaans Volga German differs more from German than Afrikaans from Netherlands

[@sergioalieno]

In Argentinien es gibt so viele Leute die wolgadeutsche vorfahren haben

[@czar5692]

I speak it also, was born in germany, grandparents from fathers side are from the volga region, my father is from omsk. My grandma and my godfather are the only one I can speak in that way. My father can't do it anymore.

[@m.e.o.w.p.u.r.r]

Perhaps my ancestors spoke like this 😆 they were Volga Germans who immigrated to Oklahoma and Kansas in the 1800s

[@maratshaydullin57]

Now imagine Berghain full of Volga Germans speaking like this!

[@radiobot7693]

"My dog" Haha. That's what I heard.

[@Miniweet9167]

All the diphthongs have been flattened to aa

[@gijsbodbijl]

Always found it interesting to hear that German dialects with older origins sound more similar to Dutch and our dialects (then current german). Fascinating to see how close our languages are related.

[@plentyonions]

I was watching a documentary about Spätaussiedler in Germany and the old grandad who still spoke Volga German said he understood Dutch better than Standard Modern Hochdeutsch

[@notbradleycooper5930]

This is great. Hello, from a Volga German descendant in the USA.

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

hi^^

[@wolodimirmelnik9007]

Kudn Tach Komrad.- )

[@michaelburggraf2822]

This sounds like the dialect of Palatinate (Pfalz) to me, ie. Pfälzisch. You can hear it in the south of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[@dirkspatz3692]

As a Rheinländer (Cologne area) I understood most of it.

[@Elmesiasdelgol2022]

Volga Germans who emigrated to Russia were coming from that zone, as well as the current regions of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. All within the HRE

[@luv1another]

Would you know about which area of Germany the Voga Germans came from by the dialect they have? I think my family might have migrated from the area you mentioned. It looked familiar from the Russian recording of some of the settlements.

[@michaelburggraf2822]

@@luv1another I could try but I would caution against taking a dialect as the only indicator of origin because if your ancestors were living in Russia for several generations they would probably have adopted a local idiom which could be different from the one of their original area in Germany. I know from a coworker that eg under Stalin's rule people with German ancestors were dispersed all over the USSR.

[@luv1another]

@@michaelburggraf2822 what about also including religion? Would Luthern have been a main denomination in that area ? Maybe it would of been more concentrated. Dewald Schneider left for Russia around 1767 went to Saratov then his offspring on to Kansas in 1900. I just wish I could locate where in Germany he started.

[@notbradleycooper5930]

Another good dialect for a video would be Hutterisch. Hutterites in the USA and Canada speak it.

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

will check it out

[@Fritz999]

Very easy to understand.

[@unforeseeninsight]

My grandmother was an immigrant Volga German and she sang me a song when I was little about the farmer selling the baby horse who didn’t know how to walk yet. I wish I could find the full lyrics for it.

[@leibedduch3154]

Tross, Tross Trillchen Der Bauer hat ein Füllchen Das Füllchen kann nicht laufen Der Bauer will s verkaufen.

[@familyandfriends3519]

You sure wasn't nothing about Hitler

[@caml17]

Anyone know the name of this German dialect? I remember reading there was a name for it online, but now can’t remember or find it.

[@youtubeprofile9495]

Hahaha, ich bin mit meiner Familie 1997 nach Deutschland gekommen (Nachfahre der Wolga- und Odessadeutschen). Ich habe Deutsch erst in Deutschland gelernt, aber ich verstehe die Sprache schneller als Du 😂, das muss wohl in Genen liegen 😊.

[@lucasreinert3030]

Jeder deutscher der irgend ein Dialekt spricht kann eigentlich alles verstehen.

[@leibedduch3154]

Leibedduch=Leinenbetttuch=Bettbezug aus Leinen. 😅😊😂😊

[@X1ninja12]

You know what’s wrong and it makes it funny

[@vladsome6026]

Interesting fact that Germans are most represented ethic group from Western Europe in Russia. German population, surprisingly, increased in Russia after WW2 because some of captive Germans settled here. I personally new 2 people of German origin, however they completely Russified, only last names remained.

[@plentyonions]

yes but they basically lost their german identity in exile..in 1970 only 49% spoke German as first language

[@robowisanveithasung6022]

related to military history, many Russian generals in the Napoleonic Wars were also Baltic Germans, specifically Barclay de Tolly, Wittgenstein, and Buxhoeveden

[@alexanderjung7361]

Nonsense. Writing such sick shit.

[@wolodimirmelnik9007]

Volga Germans have large families. At least 7 children is not uncommon.

[@wolodimirmelnik9007]

@@plentyonions From 1990 onwards, 3 millionWe moved to Germany and learned the German language.

[@ekesandras1481]

For me it is more strange that someone from Munich talks in such a Prussian accent. Who has no sensibility for the dialect of his home region has of course ahs little sensibility for other dialects. Don't compare the Volga-German pronounciation to todays private TV Ghetto-Hochdeutsch, compare it to similar dialects with which it is related.

[@drunkonkerosene]

Almost a bit like Dutch in some ways.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

Yes ,they sound Vulgar.

[@FredFish99]

still like your radical living youtube channel a lot more

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

this is a whole different form of videos here on this channel, it will only be reactions

[@FredFish99]

@@TheGermanAmbassador yeah i get that

[@ulrichrenner6256]

@@TheGermanAmbassador This sucks, and Radical Living is great. Of course it is much less work, and yes, there are lots of stupid reaction videos that get a ton of clicks. I think you might have to learn how to produce videos for stupid people to make this Channel really take off.

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

@@ulrichrenner6256 I know this sux 😄 this channel is just an experiment i run for a main channel video^^ crazy how many of you found it already lol

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

@@ulrichrenner6256 but what i can already say is that this channel and it's videos already perform much better than my usual ones (relatively speaking), which i find very sad 🙈

[@gabrielschultz89]

I remember hearing that there is some Russian mixed into the language and that, when we came to the US,, the Germans here couldn't understand us and we couldn't speak English. So we kind of isolated ourselves from everyone. My family killed off the language after WW2 because they feared discrimination if we had any sort of accent. Volga German was always the first language.

[@Joaquin.Kerbs.96]

Greetings from a Volga German descendant in Chile.

[@Elmesiasdelgol2022]

¿Cuántos son en Chile? Yo soy 🇦🇷 y descendiente de alemanes del Volga.

[@familyandfriends3519]

Go back to Germany

[@familyandfriends3519]

​@@Elmesiasdelgol2022Argentina is Spanish go back to Germany

[@Joaquin.Kerbs.96]

En realidad acá son muy pocos. Y en mi caso mis ancestros también llegaron a Argentina jaja

[@familyandfriends3519]

@@Joaquin.Kerbs.96 please go back to Germany

[@shadowday24]

das hört sich ein bisschen an wie saarländisch

[@wolodimirmelnik9007]

Ja die meisten kommen von Südhessen und Schwaben und wir haben auch Französische Wörter in benutz gehabt so wie Adej .

[@jasminkrieger8464]

Ich versteh das auch obwohl hochdeutsch besser als Kölsch

[@sofiapeters3340]

This sounds familiar, almost like Afrikaans...

[@Elmesiasdelgol2022]

More or less. Both Afrikaaners and Volga-Germans were mostly farmers who didn't get along too nicely with the local population of the places they settled in. Think about that.

[@jasminkrieger8464]

Intressant ok

[@janvanaardt3773]

I cannot see Dutch in it

[@flhxri]

It's probably old German like how the French Canadians speak old French.

[@grawakendream8980]

cool

[@zhajunhang]

ANOTHER CHANNEL?

[@Yoel_Āndria_Müller]

Hello, thank you for reacting. I’m Volga German in Argentina🇦🇷, and I understood everything, there are some studies from different universities that attach information about how the language evolved and the mixture and influence of Russian on the language, es These people have a great story with them... great video

[@familyandfriends3519]

Argentina is Spanish go back to Germany

[@megatonleviathanofficial]

Thank you.

[@Dace_Arassum]

Трах😂😂😂

[@FredFish99]

hi 1st viewer here

[@TheGermanAmbassador]

Hello 😊

[@FredFish99]

@@TheGermanAmbassador thanks for the heart and hello

[@start3215]

Russian Germans Festival 2022 in Siberia, Russia and the Russian Germans song "I am a Russian German", look. */watch?v=oj-vUmM_tsw*

[@actually_im_worse_yall]

its funny when you actually know the diffrences