Editing Hutterite German (section)

==History and related languages==
Hutterite German is a [[koiné language]] originally based on the Bavarian dialects spoken in [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], home of [[Jacob Hutter]] and many early Hutterites, but it shifted its base to [[Duchy of Carinthia|Carinthia]] dialects in the mid-18th century when so-called [[Transylvanian Landler|"Landler"]], [[Crypto-Protestantism|Crypto-Protestants]] from Carinthia, were forced by [[empress]] [[Maria Theresia]] to resettle to [[Transylvania]]. A larger group of them joined the scattered remnants of the Hutterites who had been able to settle in  Transylvania where there was more [[religious tolerance]] than in other parts of the [[Habsburg monarchy]]. This tolerance for different Christian groups emerged when Transylvania was ruled by the [[Ottoman Empire]] whose rulers did not care about theological differences among the "infidels" they ruled.

Hutterite German is only about 50% intelligible to a speaker of [[Pennsylvania Dutch language|Pennsylvania Dutch]],<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=geh The Ethnologue, 16th ed]</ref> as the latter variant is based on dialects spoken around the [[Electoral Palatinate]]. Hutterite German therefore belongs to the [[Southern Bavarian]] dialect group which is spoken in the southern parts of [[Bavaria]] and [[Austria]] except for the westernmost part ([[Vorarlberg]]).

The language has adopted a limited number of [[Russian language|Russian]] and also many English loan words, which are the result of Hutterite migrations into [[Eastern Europe]] and now [[North America]]. The core vocabulary is still almost exclusively of German origin.