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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Keel, William D. |
| Title, Analytic | On Dialect Mixture: The Case of Ellis County (Kansas) Volga-German |
| Title, Monographic | Proceedings of 1981 Mid-America Linguistics Conference |
| Medium | Typescript |
| Abstract | The Russian-German settlers in Ellis County (Kansas) represent a linguistic dilemma. Each of the five counties is said to speak a different dialect. Historically, the speakers in these villages descend from German colonies on the Volga founded during the years 1764-1774 at the invitation of Catherine the Great. The linguistic problem is to determine the relationship of the Ellis County Volga-German dialect(s) to the known German dialects in the German homeland. Do these dialects represent the result of a complex series of dialect mixtures? |
| Call Number | MKI P85-55 |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Russian Germans/ Kansas/Dialects |