The Central Dakota Germans

Their History, Language, and Culture

• Author(s): Shirley Fischer Arends,
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 0878401989
  ISBN_13: 9780878401987
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... The Russian Germans who settled in North and South Dakota were immigrants from Russia, the Black Sea colonies, and Bessarabia. They had originally come from southwestern Germany and spoke a "Swabian" dialect.