Our Amish Language

# Summary As her Amish community in Libby, Montana modernized and adopted modern conveniences and dress, the author and her family gradually stopped speaking Pennsylvania Dutch, their traditional language. Now she is working to preserve the language as it fades from use within her community, which has shifted theologically and socially from strict traditional Amish practices. The author reflects on linguistic markers like pronunciation that reveal one's Amish heritage even after leaving the community.