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Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 1] 2015
► pp. 25–42

The Language Milieu of the Old Order Amish

Preserving Pennsylvania Deitsch

Published online: 01 October 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.1.02jan
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