Do conservative Mennonites/Amish have an accent/dialect when speaking English?

[Hoihey]

Is it just me or do they have their own dialect what do you think?
I’m not Sure if my time stamps are working properly, the Mennonite guy speaks from 3m55s


Amish guy speaks from
42s




Even relatively liberal sects still carry a bit of a dialect

[Richmondbread]

The Amish sound like they have a heavy Dutch/German dialect in PA. But the Mennonites I've met in Virginia sound normal.

[La Gallega]

Is it just me or do they have their own dialect what do you think?







Even relatively liberal sects still carry a bit of a dialect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsy..._Dutch_English

[Hoihey]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsy..._Dutch_English

That’s different, that dialect came from mass German immigration and was not specifically related to the Amish/Mennonites

[Hoihey]

I would really appreciate if someone outside the U.S/Canada chipped in, I wonder if they can tell the difference.

[KwaiPl]

Mennonites here sound no different than others.

[Creoda]

Interesting, some of those accents sound a bit British/Australian at times, more so than other Americans. Probably because they're the last holdouts of the more archaic American accents, which were more British sounding.

[Hoihey]

Interesting, some of those accents sound a bit British/Australian at times, more so than other Americans. Probably because they're the last holdouts of the more archaic American accents, which were more British sounding.

I never thought of them speaking with an English/Australian character. Here’s how very conservative groups that don’t interact much with the English world speak like. Do you think they still have an English/Australian intonation?
(Skip to 3:33 if the video doesn’t start there)

[PaleoEuropean]

They sound just like a more Western Midwesterner. Common accent in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

[Creoda]

I never thought of them speaking with an English/Australian character. Here’s how very conservative groups that don’t interact much with the English world speak like. Do you think they still have an English/Australian intonation?
(Skip to 3:33 if the video doesn’t start there)

Not him, he sounds heavily German.

The one in the first video sounds Australian on some words, like truth. The second guy (Fisher) sounds a bit old rural English/West Country. The old woman in the 3rd vid sounds a bit Scottish at times, but that's probably because it's Canada.