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賓夕法尼亞州德語
The PennsylvaniaGermanLanguage is a MoselleFranconianWestMiddleGermanLanguage of the UnitedStates. SIL code: PDC. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: 85,000 in USA, including 70,000 Old Order Amish, 15,000 Old Order Mennonites, fewer Pennsylvanisch (Lutheran). Population total both countries: 100,000 out of an ethnic population of 200,000 (1978 Kloss and McConnell). Region: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida. Also spoken in Canada. Alternate names: PENNSYLVANISH, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH. Dialects: AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PLAIN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN), NON-AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PENSYLVANISCH DEITSCH, NON-PLAIN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN). Comments: Blending of several German dialects, primarily Rhenish Palatinate (Pfalzer) German, with syntactic elements of High German and English. Mostly incomprehensible now to a person from the Palatinate (H. Kloss 1978). Non-plain community: youngest fluent speakers 40 to 50 years old (M. Louden 1987). Plain community not shifting to English, but has stable bilingualism (M. Louden 1987). Separate orthographies for Pennsylvania and Ohio dialects. Christian. NT 1994. Also spoken in: Canada. (Language name: GERMAN, PENNSYLVANIA.) Population: 15,000 in Canada (1995). Alternate names: PENNSYLVANISCH, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH. Dialects: AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN, NON-AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PENNSYLVANISCH DEITSCH). Comments: Christian. NT 1994.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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Instances內容承載物理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.
 EntityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 德語小組語言
 德系語A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 HumanLanguageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 印度歐洲語言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/)
 LanguageA 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.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 LinguisticExpressionThis 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.
 中德語Of the 17 GermanGroupLanguages, eight are classified as a MiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 摩澤爾法蘭克西部中德語Of the four WestMiddleGermanLanguages, one is classified as a MoselleFranconianWestMiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 NaturalLanguageThe 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.
 PhysicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 西德語
 西中德語Of the eight MiddleGermanLanguages, four are classified as a WestMiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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