# Pella Dutch

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{{Short description|Dutch dialect spoken in Pella, Iowa, USA}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox language
| name        = Pella Dutch
| nativename  = ''Pella Nederlands''
| state       = [Pella](/source/Pella%2C_Iowa), Iowa, United States
| coordinates = {{coord|41|24|N|92|55|W|type:landmark|display=inline}}
| speakers    = some<ref name="weber"/>
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2        = [Germanic](/source/Germanic_languages)
| fam3        = [West Germanic](/source/West_Germanic_languages)
| fam4        = [Istvaeonic](/source/Weser-Rhine_Germanic)
| fam5        = [Low Franconian](/source/Low_Franconian_languages)
| fam6        = [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language)
| fam7        = [Brabantic](/source/Brabantic)
|map          = Marion_County_Iowa_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Pella_Highlighted.svg
|mapcaption   = Location of Pella, Iowa
|isoexception = dialect
|glotto       = none
}}
{{Dutch dialects}}

'''Pella Dutch,''' also known as '''Iowa Dutch''', is a dialect of the [Dutch language](/source/Dutch_language) spoken in [Pella, Iowa](/source/Pella%2C_Iowa). 

Pella Dutch's origins began with the migration of a group of 800 Dutch settlers under the leadership of Dominee (Reverend) H. P. Scholte in 1847.

In 1860, the ''Pella Weekblad'', Pella's first [Dutch language](/source/Dutch_language) newspaper, debuted. The paper continued to be published weekly until 1941.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Webber|first=Phillip|date=October 8–9, 1981|title=AN ETHNO-SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF PELLA DUTCH|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9jZGwAACAAJ|journal=Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies|pages=2, 5}}</ref>

Language use was strongly affected by Governor [William L. Harding](/source/William_L._Harding)'s controversial 1918 [Babel Proclamation](/source/Babel_Proclamation), which banned the speaking of languages other than English in public.<ref name=":0" />

Semi-speakers of the dialect have been attested as recently as 2011.<ref name="weber">{{Cite book|last=Weber|first=Philip E.|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/2656|title=Pella Dutch: Portrait of a Language in an Iowa Community, An Expanded Edition|date=2011|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-60938-066-3|location=Iowa City}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

Category:Pella, Iowa
Category:Dutch-American culture in Iowa
Category:Dutch-language dialects
Category:Dutch language in the United States

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