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6. They're isolated in many ways.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:26 AM
Mar 2025

I found the "translator" bit to be interesting. They speak Plautdietsch (at least that's how the Plautdietsch speakers I've know--just a couple--said it). It's not jus "Low German"--that's a large dialect continuum, but these are usually descendants of Low Germany speakers that were invited into the Donbas and adjacent areas under tsars like Catherine the Great and later emigrated in the late 1800s and early 1900s for economic and (later) political reasons.

They're sometimes described as "Russian emigrants" but they never culturally assimilated and usually retained their own language.

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