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Pre-1915 Russian Borrowings in the Volga German Dialects: A Study of Permanence after Emigration to Kansas
Johnson, D. Chris
Johnson, D. Chris
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German-speaking immigrants from the middle Volga region of the Russian Empire first came to Kansas in the mid 1870s, with more arriving into the early 20th century. Interspersed throughout their vocabulary were a small number of Russian borrowings. Within three decades, two interested observers of these immigrants, Rev. Francis S. Laing and Judge J.C. Rupenthal, began to document these borrowings. At approximately the same time, thousands of miles away along the Volga where immigration to Kansas began, a Volga German scholar, Georg Dinges, wrote his dissertation on Russian language influence in the local German dialects. A comparison of word lists provided by these scholars so far apart yet working at approximately the same time proved invaluable in studying these borrowings decades later in Kansas.
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2004
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Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, University of Kansas
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Volga German, Kansas
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Johnson, D. Christopher. 2004. "Pre-1915 Russian Borrowings in the Volga German Dialects: A Study of Permanence after Emigration to Kansas." In The Volga Germans of West Central Kansas: Aspects of Their History, Politics, Culture and Language, ed. William Keel, James Forsythe, Francis Schippers and Helmut Schmeller. Lawrence, KS: Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, 2004, pp. 195-215.