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It's called "Pennsylvanian German," because it is German. No Dutch spoken.
whoops "Pennsylvanian Dutch" is the ethnic group not the language. That doesn't mean of course, they're of Dutch descent, but "Pennsylvanian Dutch" is the correct term for the group regardless.
When they immigrated, they said they were Deutsch, so the idiot lady at the horse & buggy DMV marked them down as 'Dutch.' Or something along those lines.
I'm actually surprised that Massachusetts & Rhode Island didn't have Portuguese as their second languages.
Me too. Suspect it's changed in the last decade. Also Western Massachustts has few Portuguese speakers (except for Ludlow). Living in Eastern MA would give a different impression.
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