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Standard?

The article does not seem to show why this language should be regarded as in any way "standard" and not just a collection of local varieties. Either this omission needs to be fixed or the content folded in to American German.--Pfold (talk) 08:22, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pfold: The nonsensical page title has been moved in the meanwhile, but the lead is just as dubious as before. I agree to merge the content (provided it is well-sourced) to German language in the United States (the target page of American German). German-speaking communities either speak a dynamic continuation of their vernacular dialects which they brought over from German-speaking Europe, or they are oriented towards common Standard German. AFAIK, local variants never have consolidated into a specifically American "standard" variety. –Austronesier (talk) 10:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the articles should be merged. — There is one newspaper, Hiwwe wie Driwwe, that is published in a High German variety other than Standard German, and to which "[m]ore than 100 Pennsylvania German authors—members of Lutheran and UCC churches as well as Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites—have already contributed pieces of prose, poems and newspaper articles." That may lead to some degree of standardization of Pennsylvania German. Or it may not. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 12:16, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pfold, Austronesier, and LiliCharlie: I've gone ahead and BOLDly redirected this. The article seems to be mostly original research (some of it seemingly unrelated to the topic entirely) and I can find no support for the term "American German Language" even being used anywhere outside of Wikipedia; Special:Diff/922678845 seems to confirm that suspicion. The citations used seem to be mostly there to explain existing scholarship that is then critiqued in the article; I don't really think there's anything to merge here. Blablubbs|talk 11:38, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]