[Wikipedia-l] Pennsylvania German Wikipedia?

[James R. Johnson]

Can you give some examples of Penn Dutch, and how it's unique/different from
Hochdeutsch?

Thanks,

James

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Josh Campfield wrote:

>I wrote last year sometime about the possibility of adding a wikipedia
>in Pennsylvania German/Pennsylvania Dutch. You said discuss it on the
>Village Pump. I just put a message out on there asking what do other
>people think. Pending what they say, what do you think about doing
>this? It's a rapidly dying language, and besides perhaps helping to
>revive it, the Wikipedia would have the distinction of being the first
>encyclopedia ever published in Pennsylvania German. The ISO 3-letter
>code is pdc.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Josh Campfield
>joshcampfield at gmail.com
>  
>

It's an interesting idea but I don't think you'd be able to find enough 
people willing to add to it, edit it, and maintain it.


-Jtkiefer

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