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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Keel, William D. |
| Title, Analytic | On the "Heimatbestimmung" of the Ellis County (Kansas) Volga-German Dialects |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1982 |
| Volume ID | 17 |
| Location in Work | 99-110 |
| Abstract | Beginning in 1875, large numbers of German Catholics from Russia settled on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railroad in Ellis County, Kansas. They came from farming villages established in the 1760s along the Volga River at the invitation of Catherine the Great. To this day each village prides itself on its German heritage, maintained in foreign environments for over two hundred years. The German dialects taken to Russia in the eighteenth century by the forebears of these Kansans were preserved and passed down from generation to generation until the 1940s. This study is the search for a linguistic homeland for the dialects still spoken in these villages. It is essentially a linguistic description of the Ellis County dialects in terms of the characteristics which distinguish the continental West Germanic dialects. |
| Call Number | MKI / SHS E 184 .G3 G315 and P85-56 (manuscript) |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Russian Germans/ Kansas/Dialects |