Pella Dutch

{{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, 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 | fam3 = West Germanic | fam4 = Istvaeonic | fam5 = Low Franconian | fam6 = Dutch | fam7 = 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 spoken in Pella, 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 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's controversial 1918 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>

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