Texas has its own dialect of German and it is close to extinction!

Texas has its own dialect of German and it is close to extinction!

When you think of the State of Texas, you think of cowboys and not German. Why doesn't anyone know that Texas has it's own dialect of German? Well, it's most likely because so few people still speak the language, even those originating from the small German community, Sattler Lake.

Children that grew up in the community that was founded around 150 years ago, weren't encouraged to speak German. They still picked up on German, but they were forced to speak English.

Hans Boas, a Texan professor of Germanic Studies predicts that the Texan dialect of German will be extinct by the year 2050. Furthermore, he believes that the culture that came along with the language will die as well!

Linguists agree that there are about 6,000 languages existing in the world today. By the end of the century, it is predicted that about 90 percent of those languages will be extinct!

As a result, linguists are frantically trying to record interviews with native speakers of dying languages so they can learn more about how the language developed, and the culture behind it!

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