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Dutch language spoken in and around Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey from the late 17th century until the early 20th century. It may have been a partial creole language[1] based on Zeelandic and West Flemish Dutch dialects with English and possibly some elements of Lenape. It was spoken by the descendants of Dutch settlers to New Jersey and by the mixed race people known as the Ramapough Mountain Indians. It was sometimes called Neger Duits – "Negro Dutch, although 'Duits' actually means 'German'"[2] – when spoken by mixed race people. There were two distinct variations of Jersey Dutch, the regional Dutch dialect that was spoken by the actual descendants of Dutchmen, and the version spoken by black slaves and people of mixed race. In the latter, there is an overall decline in inflection, apparently including a loss of past-tense verb forms. This is due to the isolation from other Dutch speakers and contact with English-speaking settlers. The former variation experienced a similar decline but to much less of an extent, and is not a creole language.[1] An example of Jersey Dutch: En kääd'l had twî jongers; de êne blêv täus; de andere xong vôrt f'n häus f'r en stat. Hai waz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkni arm. Hai dogti ôm dat täus en z'n vâders pläk. Tû zaide: äk zal na häus xâne. Main vâder hät plänti. In standard modern Dutch: Een man had twee jongens; de ene bleef thuis; de andere ging voort van huis voor een vermogen. Hij was niet tevreden thuis en hij werd daardoor arm. Hij dacht aan thuis en zijn vaders plaats. Toen zei hij: ik zal naar huis gaan. Mijn vader heeft voldoende. In English: A man had two sons. The one stayed at home; the other went abroad from home to make his fortune. He was not content at home and therefore he became poor. He thought about home and his father's place. Then said: I shall go home. My father has plenty. From: A text in Jersey Dutch Dr J. Dyneley Prince, 1910; via Radio Netherlands. Further reading Bachman, Van Cleaf. 1982. ‘The story of the Low Dutch language’. De Halve Maen 56: 3, 1-3, 21; 57: 1, 10-13. Bachman, Van Cleaf. 1983. ‘What is Low Dutch?’ De Halve Maen 57: 3, 14-17, 23-24. Bachman, Van Cleaf, Alice P. Kenney & Lawrence G. van Loon. 1980. ‘ “Het Poelmeisie”. An introduction to the Hudson Valley Dutch dialect’. New York History 61, 161-185. Buccini, Anthony F. 1995. ‘The Dialectical Origins of New Netherland Dutch’. Dutch Linguistics in a Changing Europe. The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1993. Ed. by Thomas Shannon & Johan P. Snapper. Lanham etc., 211-263. (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, 8). van Loon, L.G. 1938. Crumbs from an old Dutch closet. The Dutch dialect of Old New York. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. van Loon, L.G. 1939. 'Ave atque Vale, Jersey Lag Duits Verdwijnt'. Onze Taaltuin 8, 91-95, 107-119. Noordegraaf, Jan. 2008. 'Nederlands in Noord-Amerika. Over de studie van het Laag Nederlands (Low Dutch)'. Trefwoord, tijdschrift voor lexicografie, December 2008, 1-29. (http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/trefwoord.) Prince, J. Dyneley. 1910. ‘The Jersey Dutch dialect’. Dialect Notes 3, 459-484. Prince, J. Dyneley. 1913. ‘A text in Jersey Dutch’. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal en Letterkunde 32, 306-312. Shetter, William Z. 1958. ‘A final word on Jersey Dutch’. American Speech 33, 243-251. Storms, James B.H. 1964. A Jersey Dutch vocabulary. Park Ridge, N.J.: Pascack Historical Society Notes ^ a b Holm, John A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles. Cambridge University Press. pp. 335–8. ISBN 0-521-35940-6.  ^ Duits means German in modern Dutch, but in many older contexts refers to the Netherlands or the Dutch language. See Dietsch for more information. See Also Negerhollands References (Dutch) Handboek der Nederlandsche taal: Deel I. De sociologische structuur der Nederlandsche taal I., Jac. van Ginneken and L.C.G. Malmberg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. 1928. Chapter 10: Het Amerikaansch. (Dutch) Ik was te bissie...Nederlanders en hun taal in de Verenigde Staten: 2.3 Het taalgebruik van de 17e-eeuwse immigranten en hun nakomelingen, Jo Daan, De Walburg Pers. 2007. [1] (Click on link and then scroll down.) Mencken, H.L. The American Language. 1921. Appendix II - Non-English Dialects in America: Dutch Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат Ossining List of places in Northamptonshire Look at other dictionaries: Jersey Dutch — Rot: Hauptsprachgebiet des Jersey Dutchs bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein. Jersey Dutch war eine Sprache, die auf dem niederländischen Dialekt Seeländisch basierte. Sie wurde seit dem späten 17. Jahrhundert bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert vor allem… …   Deutsch Wikipedia Dutch Reformed Church (disambiguation) — Dutch Reformed Church may refer to: Netherlands Dutch Reformed Church (NHK), was a Christian denomination in the Netherlands. 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