Allentown is a city in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the third-most-populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the nation as of 2020.
Image: 2018 Center Square Looking Northeast 12 Oct Allentown PA
Image: 2021 500 Block Hamilton Street North Side Drone Allentown PA
Image: Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Image: 2013 Miller Symphony Hall Auditorium
Pennsylvania Dutch language
Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes referred to as Pennsylvania German, is a variation of Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States and Canada. There are approximately 300,000 native speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch in the United States and Canada.
An example of Pennsylvania High German in Palatine Fraktur: ("...𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊, 𝖉𝖆𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖍𝖗 𝖒𝖊𝖎 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍 𝖊𝖝𝖐𝖚𝖍𝖘𝖙, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖊𝖎 𝕳𝖔𝖈𝖍𝖉𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍 𝖘𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖑 𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖘𝖞𝖑𝖛𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖍."; "...first I must ask, that you excuse my German, for my Hochdeutsch sounds a bit Pennsylvanian.")
Pennsylvania Dutch writer Henry Harbaugh
Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1845
Pennsylvania Dutch arts history in Pennsylvania Dutch language
