Record #:

19845

Author(s):

Gehrke, William Herman

Abstract:

This article traces the development of English language skills among the Pennsylvania-German in North Carolina. It is divided into sections that look at the German Period, 1747-1790, the original dialect, the mixed dialect, the bi-lingual period 1790-1825, the efforts to preserve the German language, the arguments for German, English marching on, and the English period, 1825--.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Jan 1935, p1-19, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--German language