The Secret German Dialect You Probably Didn't Know About

[@TheLingOtter]

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[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

Thanks so much. Du bist sehr cool

[@JaseLeake]

German cowboys lowkey sounds the coolest shit ever 😭🙏

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

It is man, it is .however cowboys sadly ain't a common thing, unless you work at kings ranch. You can be a cowboy.

[@mingthan7028]

You don't wanna be a cowboy in my country tho

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

​@@mingthan7028 what country is it

[@pedrosampaio7349]

Ever watched Django Unchained?

[@Fermifire]

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

[@RandomThingsEn]

8:41 Germans more frequently say "Auto"

[@lucidattf]

8:28 german word for squirrel is a mistake here

[@BambooTime]

Should be "Eichhörnchen"

[@tru7hhimself]

@@BambooTime or eichkatzl, depending on the region.

[@ruedigernassauer]

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".

[@Twisted_Logic]

"Joe-HANN"

[@soIzec]

It REALLY wouldn't hurt to just go to google translate and hear how it pronounces words. Is it perfect? No, but far more accurate than TheLingOtter's pronunciations.

[@monotonehell]

Same, and I don't even speak German. :D

[@maxhochdorfer3069]

​@@soIzecyeah I mean this is a channel about linguistics, so that shouldn't be too much to ask imo

[@la-go-xy]

​​@@Twisted_Logic Yo-hun or Kres-tee-un Freed-resh Arnst ...right, better use google &co

[@SantiagoHennig]

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

[@TOBAPNW_]

That's also the reason why the actual Dutch (from the Netherlands) are called that in English

[@Zeppelinschaffner22]

@@SantiagoHennig it's the same word. "German" in Dutch is "Duits" and in German its "Deutsch". Dutch is actually "Nederlands"/"Niederländisch". Its the English speaker that jumbled this up 😂 Germans and Dutch people are in agreement 🤝

[@daddykarlmarx6183]

That and also the modern concept of a unified Germany didn't really exist when the pa Dutch came here, pretty much everyone in that general area in Europe called themselves "Dutch" or their regional equivalent

[@Zeppelinschaffner22]

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

[@ilikeyourname4807]

Although if it weren't for the meme status of the word, many Germans wouldn't understand the Bavarian version. Compare "Eichhörnchen" to "Oachkatzl"

[@LingoLizard]

Guten tag Jahl!!!

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

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.

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

Where i live in Texas there is a lot of Vietnamese speakers and I'm learning that as well ( and Korean)

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

Sorry I can't type that well yet

[@LangSphere]

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

[@la-go-xy]

Except in Hamburg

[@OzeMozeDoze]

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

[@TheLingOtter]

I will reduce it for the next video! Thanks for letting me know

[@zombnoggin]

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

[@zenboi6129]

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 :]

[@asseating_mailman]

Any good recommendations for channels or sources to help someone with an interest in the evolution of the russian language in the US?

[@ominusomega7803]

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

[@neversarium]

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

[@lunawenko9324]

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

[@deutschermichel5807]

Well itʼs more about the Counts of Oldenburg and later the Granddukes of Oldenburg, ehose descendents today rule the Kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Great Britain etc.

[@lunawenko9324]

@@deutschermichel5807 Yeah

[@H3ad1nthecl0uds]

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 ❤

[@christopherthr]

My grandmother grew up in north-central Texas in the 1920s, and she told me that they had to have two different schools in her relatively-small town, one taught in German for the German-speaking kids, and one taught in English for the English-speaking kids.

[@riton349]

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.

[@GameTornado01]

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.

[@la-go-xy]

Zeppeline...

[@blakes_flakes]

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!

[@claso7221]

just wanna say i hope you never stop uploading ❤

[@Josukegaming]

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.

[@astroneural]

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!

[@astroneural]

"Boerne" is also pronounced "Burn-ee" btw

[@danieljohn4014]

it's acctually prnounced in a way you can't write in english, but best is ducks hoond

[@ilikeyourname4807]

@@danieljohn4014 And being German, I've never met anyone wo actually calls it that in German. Most use the short form "Dackel"

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

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

[@user-kb8zv5ob2q]

6:25 you forgot about Yiddish in New York

[@ryanpangilinan5803]

Yiddish I don’t believe, is considered a dialect of German however

[@user-kb8zv5ob2q]

​@@ryanpangilinan5803 אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט And if Yiddish isn't a German dialect then Pennsylvania Dutch also isn't a German dialect because they both have the same relation to standard German

[@MrTohawk]

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

[@RandomThingsEn]

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

[@HotelPapa100]

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.

[@la-go-xy]

Do you mean the lady? She is very intelligible to a German, but definitly with an American accent!

[@GameTornado01]

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

[@HotelPapa100]

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

[@SantiagoHennig]

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.

[@dragonick2947]

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!

[@catmacopter8545]

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

[@PMAOpus]

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.

[@princezsshorts3209]

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

[@krabstickle]

Wymysorys is a pretty funky language

[@Vininn126]

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

[@MyMusics101]

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 :)

[@TalysAlankil]

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

[@jakub_exhibition]

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

[@christopherthr]

I feel like the Texas-Czech history isn’t as well known as the Texas-German history. At least for myself, growing up in Texas everyone knew about the Texas-German history, especially in the Hill Country. But I had no clue that there were native speakers of Czech in Texas until I happened to meet someone whose wife was a native Texan and a native Czech speaker when I was in my 20s.

[@jakub_exhibition]

@@christopherthr yes. Linguistically speaking. But I mean more of the original nation’s history. But I guess it wasn’t really funny 😅

[@TheOne_6]

hi there sea animal with etymological knowledge

[@wegriz5570]

There's also Texas silesian

[@daddykarlmarx6183]

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

[@nfrldr2]

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

[@nfrldr2]

Like from Austin

[@fightingfinn1503]

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)

[@M3GG1RL]

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)

[@EalaFreond]

If ye live in Germany, learn Standard High German and everybody will understand your message. Don't learn Texan German for Germany.

[@la-go-xy]

​​@@EalaFreondIt is hard to understand some German dialects, because they differ. @M1GG3RL In which region are you? Don't be shy ;-)

[@danv.2695]

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

[@Soguwe]

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

[@la-go-xy]

Dux-hoond more like, if it weren't Duck-al

[@loek1455]

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

[@aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029]

In the past there was a serbian community also

[@greylikesart756]

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

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

Cool my aunt lives in Fredericksburg

[@greylikesart756]

also as a hoch deutsch speaker this video was super interesting and it makes me want to learn some texas german

[@randnew1]

Meanwhile the East Prussian & Silesian German dialects: ☠

[@deutschermichel5807]

Joa, trauricherweis ausjestorbn

[@randnew1]

By the way, how different did Ostpreussisch sound compared to Plattdeutsch? Like is it just funny pronounciation or different grammar & vocab insomuch that it is only partially understandable?

[@ThingsInWarehouses]

Okay, this makes no sense and I love it

[@ThomasTravis-e5k]

Trust me buddy,es ist nicht

[@janvesely1087]

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

[@AutumnalCrocodile1216]

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

[@Nordisk11]

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

[@BoserPSN]

People refusing to say German words will never not be funny

[@deutschermichel5807]

Istg German words arenʼt even hard to say man

[@Henry-nw9fg]

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

[@la-go-xy]

Which Spanish is the most universal (globally)?

[@temiproto]

Eichhorn*

[@rtaraquin]

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

[@asseating_mailman]

Any good recommendations on similar channels? Any suggestions would be very appreciated!

[@creativebuilders1117]

Fun fact: germany

[@weetbear3341]

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

[@steveegallo3384]

Wadddafuq u going on about? Cheers from Acapulco!

[@callumc9426]

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 😭

[@spclips7472]

heh... first...

[@ommers123]

Nooooooooooo not the Germans 😭🙏

[@parasit6183]

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

[@JaseLeake]

German cowboys lowkey sounds the coolest shit ever 😭🙏