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Volga German. See also Mennonite Low German.


 * Sample Volga German sentence (made up by Koch):


 * Mehr volla mohl gaern in die sche gehl Kaerrich geha. : Wir wollen einmal gern in die schoene gelbe Kirche gehen. : We want to go into the beautiful yellow church.


 * Sample Volga German sentence from a community in Kansas (recorded by Weigel; the sentence in question was originally spoken in Russia when an army recruiter tried to recruit its speaker, who subsequently became famous in his community for it):


 * Ne, ich sin blos a halber/halba Mann. : Nee, ich bin bloß ein halber Mann (=noch ein Junge). : No, I am just a half man (still a boy).
 * (Palatine:) Ne, ich sin bloß een halwe(r) Mann.


 * Russian loans:


 * Erbus; also spelt Arbuus/Arbus/Arbuse, pl. Arbuse/Arbusen

1 Fred C. Koch, The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present

2 Georg Dinges, Über unsere Mundarten
 * a As of the 1920s, Baam was used in Kraft, Seelmann, Balzer, along the Großer Karaman including in Mariental, Lui, Rohleder, Graf, Herzog; in Stephan and Hussenbach auf der Bergseite, Näb, and Winckelmann. Boum was used in Katharinenstadt, Boaro, Orlowskoi, Fischer, Jost and Urbach.
 * b grous was the only form in Kraft as of the 1920s, and it was becoming the predominent form in many other places. gruus was formerly used in Warenburg and Kukkus, but already by the 1920s only by older speakers while the youth used grous. groosi was formerly used in Tscherbakowka.

3 Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen [in Katharinenstadt]

4 Erklärungen zur Sprachkarte der Wolgadeutschen Mutterkolonien

Additional

 * Words from Koch with odd orthography:


 * The transcription of Volga German in America was influenced by German, and by English. From Weigel: