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The PlautdietschLanguage is a LowSaxonGroupLanguage of Canada. SIL code: GRN. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: 80,000 or more first language speakers and 20,000 second language speakers in Canada (1978 Kloss and McConnell). Total German mother tongue speakers in Canada including standard German, 561,000 (J.A. Hawkins in B. Comrie 1986). Population total all countries: 400,000, of whom 150,000 use it habitually. 110,735 or more in Latin America are fairly monolingual. Region: Southern Canada, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia. Also spoken in: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Paraguay, Russia (Asia), Uruguay, USA. Alternate names: LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN, MENNONITEN PLATT. Comments: Not intelligible with many other Low German languages, Standard German, Pennsylvania German or Hutterite German. 110,735 or more speakers in Latin America are mainly monolingual in Plautdietsch. 50% of speakers in Canada speak Standard German and 95% speak English as second language. Literacy rate in second language: 95%. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Belize. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 5,763 in Belize (1991 census), 4% of the population (1989 J. Holm). 110,735 or more in Latin America are fairly monolingual. Alternate names: GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: 15% speak German, many speak English, and some speak Creole or Spanish as second language. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Bolivia. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 28,567 in Bolivia (1996 editor, Menno-Bote). Alternate names: GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: 6% speak Spanish or Standard German as second language. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Brazil. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 5,955 in Brazil (1985 SIL). 110,735 or more in Latin America are fairly monolingual. Alternate names: LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: Bilingualism in Portuguese, Standard German. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Costa Rica. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH. Population: 100 in Costa Rica (1974 Minnich). Alternate names: LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: Bilingualism in Spanish. People speak Plautdietsch in the home. Church services are in Spanish. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Germany. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 90,000 possibly (1996 Reuben Epp). Comments: NT 1987. Also spoken in: Kazakhstan. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 100,000 in Russia and Kazakhstan (1986). Alternate names: LOW GERMAN. Comments: 50% speak Russian as second language. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Mexico. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 40,000 in Mexico (1996). Alternate names: LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: Not intelligible with other Low Saxon languages or Standard German. 22% speak Standard German, 5% speak English, 30% speak Spanish, 5% speak Russian as second language. Literacy rate in second language: 60%. Intensive agriculturalists, cheese production. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: Paraguay. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH.) Population: 38,000 first language speakers in Paraguay, including 19,000 who speak Plautdietsch and Standard German both as mother tongue. Alternate names: LOW GERMAN. Comments: Bilingualism in Spanish, German. Agriculturalists: dairy, grain, cotton, peanuts. Christian. NT 1987. Also spoken in: USA. (Language name: PLAUTDIETSCH. Population: 10,000 in USA (1978 Kloss and McConnell). Alternate names: LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN. Comments: Not inherently intelligible with Pennsylvania German, Hutterite German, many other Low German languages or Standard German. 5% speak Standard German, 98% speak English as second language. Literacy rate in second language: 95%. Christian. NT 1987.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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