Texas German
Texas German is a dialect of the German language, which is spoken by the descendants of German-Americans, who came from the mid-1850s most of the emigrants society " Mainzer Adelsverein " in the then independent Texas. Among the Germans, the Solms- Braunfels in 1846 founded the city of Fredericksburg, under the leadership of the noble club chairman Prince Carl were. The cities of New Braunfels, Boerne, Schulenburg, Weimar and Comfort were founded by these Germans. In the heyday of the dialect, from about 1880 until the First World War, it spoke in " Hill Country " more than one hundred thousand inhabitants.
History
German immigrants arrived over a period of several years in Texas, the state in the U.S. was after ten years of independence. The Fredericksburg settlers isolated from the other Texans by refusing to learn English, and formed in the Hill Country near Fredericksburg a linguistic island. This period of isolation ended with the relocation of the Gillespie County Fair in 1889 to Fredericksburg. The community was starting to set in public schools after 1900, English teacher, and the spread of the dialect began to shrink. Today the dialect is nearly extinct and is only spoken by some older people.
The Texas German is linguistically considered not own dialect within the German language is rather a mixture of German and English. The acquisition of English words in the "home language" arose from the fact that it requires walked everyday to speak English. Texas German is therefore increasingly spoken only in a narrow family circle. The actually used German vocabulary has shrunk from generation to generation.
As a result, a Texas German speaking American GI sounds like a who was stationed in Germany after the Second World War.
Texas German does not follow a fixed spelling and grammar, but also forms of social interaction -dependent rules. However, the German language version of Texas has experienced a grammatical simplification by omission of the genitive and dative and accusative of collapse.
At the University of Texas at Austin, the German Professor Hans Boas leads through years of studies texas German language.