Editing Jersey Dutch language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct dialect of New Jersey and New York, US}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Jersey Dutch
|nativename= Laag Duits (Low Dutch)
|ethnicity= 
|region= [[New Jersey]] and [[New York (state)|New York]], United States
| image            = File:Prinsenvlag.svg
| imagecaption     = The Jersey Dutch, descendants of [[New Netherlander]]s.
|extinct = Early 20th century
| map              = 
| mapcaption       = 
|ref= <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mokeham.com/dutchthemag/tracks-and-traces-the-extinction-of-jersey-dutch/ |title=Jersey Dutch, still spoken near New York a century ago &#124; DUTCH the magazine |access-date=2016-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223062134/http://www.mokeham.com/dutchthemag/tracks-and-traces-the-extinction-of-jersey-dutch/ |archive-date=2016-12-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2   = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3   = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
|fam4   = [[Weser-Rhine Germanic|Istvaeonic]]
|fam5   = [[Low Franconian languages|Low Franconian]] 
|fam6   = [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
|script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Dutch alphabet]])
|isoexception=dialect
|ietf   =nl-u-sd-usnj
}}

{{Dutch dialects}}
'''Jersey Dutch''' ({{langx|nl|Laag Duits}}) ([[New Netherlander|Low Dutch]]),<ref name="Prince book">{{Cite book |first=John Dyneley |last=Prince |title=The Jersey Dutch dialect |oclc=68458100 |date=1910 |location= |pages=1–484}}</ref><ref name="Prince Notes">{{Cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106014720251&view=1up&seq=467 |last=Prince |first=J. Dyneley |date=1910 |title=The Jersey Dutch dialect |journal=Dialect Notes |volume=3 |pages=459–484}}</ref><ref name="nicolinevandersijs">{{cite book |title=Yankees, cookies en Dollars: De invloed van het Nederlands op de Noord-Amerikaanse Talen |author=Nicoline van der Sijs |year=2009 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |pages=25,41 |language=Dutch}}</ref> also known as '''Bergen Dutch''',<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Language|author=Mencken, H.L.|year=1921|url=http://www.bartleby.com/185/a12.html}}</ref> was a [[Dutch dialect]] formerly spoken in northeastern [[New Jersey]] from the late 17th century until the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/453863 | jstor=453863 | title=A Final Word on Jersey Dutch | last1=Shetter | first1=William Z. | journal=American Speech | date=1958 | volume=33 | issue=4 | pages=243–251 | doi=10.2307/453863 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> It evolved in one of the two [[Dutch language|Dutch]]-speaking enclaves that remained for over two centuries after the dissolution of [[Dutch West India Company|Dutch control in North America]], the other (around [[Albany, New York]]) giving rise to [[Mohawk Dutch]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/when-did-new-york-stop-speaking-dutch | title=When Did New York Stop Speaking Dutch? }}</ref> It may have been a partial [[creole language]]<ref name=cre>{{cite book | author = Holm, John A. | year = 1989 | title = Pidgins and Creoles |url=https://archive.org/details/pidginscreoles00holm | url-access = registration | publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 0-521-35940-6 | pages = 335–8}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2023}} based on [[Zeelandic]] and [[West Flemish]] Dutch dialects with [[English language|English]] and possibly some elements of [[Delaware languages|Lenape]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Jersey Dutch was spoken by the descendants of [[New Netherlander]]s who settled in [[Bergen, New Netherland]], in 1630, and by [[History of slavery in New Jersey|Black slaves]] and [[free people of color]] also residing in that region, as well as the American Indian people known as the [[Ramapough Lenape Nation]].