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This map shows the most common spoken language in every US state excluding English and Spanish

PA = Pennsylvania Dutch???

My husband is from PA and my understanding is that a lot of Germans settled in PA (his whole clan is German) and they spoke "Deutsche" (German.) Which English speaking people thought was "Dutch."

So shouldn't the language be German?

I guess "Pennsylvania Dutch" could be pidgin German, but that is out of context with the rest of the map.
 
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As someone with admittedly no linguistics background I would guess that the relationship of Pennsylvania Dutch to modern German is not dissimilar to the relationship of Haitian Creole (also on the map) to modern French.
 
This is interesting -- it's the form of West Central German spoken when those folks settled Pennsylvania, mostly in 18th century. Then they had little further contact with the continent, where German continued to evolve, but Pennsylvania German didn't.

It's similar to the Great Vowel Shift in English, in which the vowel sounds of the English of England changed after "the ship had sailed" to the New World, again largely in the 18th century. So North America didn't experience these changes. We think of English in England as being older than North American English, but in fact their vowel sounds are newer.
 
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