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Originally Posted by 2ner
What I meant is that the Mennonites who came to Canada from Russia were from the Volga region. I think we are talking about the same population.
I studied a bit of Plautdietsch (from McCaffrey's Wi Leahre Plautdietsch: A Beginner's Guide to Mennonite Low German) and have a copy of De Bibel, the Bible in Plautdietsch. I've heard it on YouTube. I know Standard German and Dutch. Plautdietsch seems to be between the two, but closer to the German.
“Velot die opp däm Harn met dien gaunzet Hoat, un velot die nich opp dien ieejnet Vestaunt.” (Spricha 3:5)
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No, the Mennonites who came to Canada weren't from the Volga region. The original two colonies were on the Molotschna River and the Dniepr.
ETA: colonies branched out from those two colonies and were referred to as daughter colonies and there were a couple of colonies in the Volga area, which may be why you describe it that way, but they were minor colonies, and wouldn't account for a description of Canada-bound Russian Mennonites being described as being from the Volga area.