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Thread #125519   Message #2781548
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Dec-09 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: Austrian carol: As Lately I Watched
Subject: RE: Austrian carol: As Lately I Watched
Here in Alberta, we have a large 'Ukrainian' element but they are from Moravia, Ruthenia and other eastern European areas that once were part of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. In day to day communication, etc., they speak a "low German" with various roots, Austrian-Bavarian-Carinthian. In worship they use the language of Luther. They all receive grade school level and many to the ninth grade in English, so they are not isolated from the Canadian English-speaking majority.
Hutterite German and Amish Pennsylvanian German are not mutually intelligible, the Amish having more of a Tyrolean base.

Farther north in the province are some Mennonite settlements; I don't know anything about their dialect.