  HutteriteGermanLanguage
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Sigma KEE - HutteriteGermanLanguage
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HutteriteGermanLanguage
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The HutteriteGermanLanguage is a BavarianAustrianLanguage of Canada. SIL code: GEH. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: 15,000 in western Canada, including 7,000 in Alberta (1981 P. Fast SIL). Population total both countries 30,000 (1982 V. Peters). Other estimates up to 100,000. Region: 76 colonies in Alberta, 12 or 13 in Saskatchewan, 27 in Manitoba, some in British Columbia, 30 in USA, with about 100 people in each, an estimated 300 colonies around the world. Alternate names: TYROLESE, TIROLEAN, HUTTERIAN GERMAN. Comments: About 70% intelligible to a speaker of Pennsylvania German, about 50% to a speaker of Plautdietsch and Standard German. Although it is called 'Tirolean', it is not a Tirolean dialect. In addition to attendance at public schools, children attend supplemental private schools with instruction in religion and Standard German. Some reports say adults are usually equally fluent in English and Standard German, others that most understand English better and have limited understanding in Standard German. They all use Standard German in church for written sermons and for Scriptures. All ages in the home. Strict communal living. Communal groups in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Japan have affiliated recently with the Hutterians, but are not ethnically Hutterian (Victor Peters 1982). Intensive agriculturalists. Christian. Also spoken in: USA. (Language name: GERMAN, HUTTERITE.) Population: 5,000 in USA (1981 P. Fast SIL). Alternate names: TYROLESE, TIROLEAN, HUTTERIAN GERMAN. Comments: Called 'Tirolean', but not a Tirolean dialect. Speakers use Standard German in church and for Scriptures. They are partly bilingual in English and Standard German. Have their own schools. Strict communal living. Communal groups in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Japan have affiliated recently with Hutterians but are not ethnically Hutterian. Intensive agriculturalists. Christian.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | BavarianAustrianLanguage | Of the eight UpperGermanLanguages, four are classified as a BavarianAustrianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | ContentBearingPhysical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | GermanGroupLanguage | |
| | GermanicLanguage | A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | IndoEuropeanLanguage | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | LanguageFamily | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | NaturalLanguage | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | UpperGermanLanguage | Of the 17 GermanGroupLanguages, eight are classified as an UpperGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | WestGermanicLanguage | |
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