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Texas German
Texasdeutsch
The flag of Texas.
Native toTexas
RegionTexas Hill Country
EthnicityTexas Germans
Native speakers
4,000–6,000, declining (2013)[1][2]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • West Germanic
      • Elbe Germanic
        • High German
          • Texas German
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
IETFde-u-sd-ustx

Texas German (German: Texasdeutsch) is a group of German language dialects spoken in the Texas Hill Country by descendants of German immigrants who settled there in the mid-19th century. These Texas Germans founded the towns of Bulverde, New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Pflugerville, Walburg and Comfort in Texas Hill Country; Muenster in North Texas; and Schulenburg, Brenham, Industry, New Ulm and Weimar in east Texas.

  1. ^ Vince, Katy (July 2013). "Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect". Texas Monthly. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  2. ^ Adam, Thomas (2005). Germany and the Americas. ABC-CLIO. p. 1031. ISBN 9781851096282.

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