Amish Vocabulary "Things Seen on a Farm"

The Pennsylvania Dutch (perhaps more strictly Pennsylvania Deitsch, Pennsylvania Germans or Pennsylvania Deutsch) are the descendants of German immigrants who came to Pennsylvania prior to 1800... Those German immigrants used to live in Germany near the Belgian (Flemish => Dutch) border.

*aysel = ezel (dutch) {same pronounciation}
*farm = Bauernhof (german) / boerderij (dutch)
*barn = scheune (german) / schuur (dutch)
*house = haus (german)
*horse = pferd (german) / paard (dutch).. no link to dutch OR german
*cows = kühe (german) / koeien (dutch).. no link again
*sheep = schapen (1 schaap - dutch) / schafe (german)
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it's a mix of dutch & german (don't know what kind of german exactly) some words are more german & some dutch but u can't make a difference cuz there r like so many words they have different so ^^'

Every single word is also used by older people over here in Frankfurt Area; except "Bavvahrei" which can be called "Bauerei".

are u sure.....everybook i've read says they speak high-german?????

LOW german

But the dunkey = aysel the way the speak it its dutch i'm dutch ;)

that's because it's technically pennsylvania deutsch (german). it's just been changed over the years to dutch... pretty much as patio87 said below.

pennsylvania dutch is most similar to german..not dutch.

I have a TV in my barn, hooked to a generator. Thats how I'm using this computer in my barn with my AOL (Amish on Line) account. I call my sheep "Fluffybuns!"

They don't speak Dutch, they speak a form of Deutsch(German).

i speak dutch and it verry different then oure's
sheep=schaap
donkey=ezel
farm=boederij
house=huis

G3RM4N1>> It is an almanian dialect.

The Amish dont have tv.

wtf
it sounds like german with alemanian dialekt.
(south germany).

Just the firs one wasn't the same.