Editing Low German (section)

===Outside Europe and the Mennonites===
{{Main|Plautdietsch|East Low German}}

There are also immigrant communities where Low German is spoken in the Western hemisphere, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Belize, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. In some of these countries, the language is part of the [[Mennonite]] religion and culture.<ref>{{cite web |title=Platdietsch |access-date=2008-02-29 |date=2008-01-27 |url=http://www.plautdietsch.ca/}}</ref> There are Mennonite communities in [[Ontario]], [[Saskatchewan]], [[Alberta]], [[British Columbia]], [[Manitoba]], [[Kansas]] and [[Minnesota]] which use Low German in their religious services and communities. These Mennonites are descended from primarily Dutch settlers that had initially settled in the [[Vistula delta]] region of [[Prussia]] in the 16th and 17th centuries before moving to newly acquired Russian territories in Ukraine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and then to the [[Americas]] in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The types of Low German spoken in these communities and in the [[Midwest]] region of the United States have diverged since emigration. The survival of the language is tenuous in many places, and has died out in many places where assimilation has occurred. Members and friends of the Historical Society of North German Settlements in western New York ([[Bergholz, New York]]), a community of Lutherans who trace their immigration from Pomerania in the 1840s, hold quarterly "Plattdeutsch lunch" events, where remaining speakers of the language gather to share and preserve the dialect. Mennonite colonies in Paraguay, Belize, and [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], Mexico, have made Low German a "co-official language" of the community.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}
[[File:ColegioWitmarsumPR.JPG|thumb|A public school in [[Witmarsum Colony]] ([[Paraná (state)|Paraná]], [[South Region, Brazil|Southern Brazil]]) teaches in the [[Portuguese language]] and in ''Plautdietsch''.<ref name="colw">{{Cite web |title=O trilinguismo no Colégio Fritz Kliewer de Witmarsum. (Paraná) [The trilingualism the College of Fritz Kliewer Witmarsum (Paraná)] |publisher=Elvine Siemens Dück |language=pt |url=http://www.celsul.org.br/Encontros/08/trilinguismo_col_fritz_kliewer.pdf |access-date=23 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606214109/http://www.celsul.org.br/Encontros/08/trilinguismo_col_fritz_kliewer.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>]]
[[East Pomeranian dialect|East Pomeranian]] is also spoken in parts of [[South Region, Brazil|southern]] and [[Southeast Region, Brazil|southeastern]] Brazil, in the latter especially in the state of {{lang|pt|[[Espírito Santo]]}}, being official in five municipalities, and spoken among its [[European immigration to Brazil|ethnically European]] migrants elsewhere, primarily in the states of [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] and {{lang|pt|[[Rondônia]]}}. East Pomeranian-speaking regions of Southern Brazil are often assimilated into the general [[German Brazilian]] population and culture, for example celebrating the {{lang|de|[[Oktoberfest]]}}, and there can even be a language shift from it to {{lang|de|[[Riograndenser Hunsrückisch]]}} in some areas. In {{lang|pt|Espírito Santo}}, nevertheless, Pomeranian Brazilians are more often proud of their language, and particular religious traditions and culture,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rog.com.br/claudiovereza2/mostraconteudos.asp?cod_conteudo=735|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221183002/http://www.rog.com.br/claudiovereza2/mostraconteudos.asp?cod_conteudo=735|url-status=dead|title=Claudio Vereza, Espírito Santo's state assemblyman by the Workers' Party &#124; The Pomeranian people in Espírito Santo|archivedate=21 December 2012}}</ref> and not uncommonly inheriting the nationalism of their ancestors, being more likely to accept marriages of its members with Brazilians of origins other than a Germanic Central European one than to assimilate with Brazilians of [[Swiss Brazilian|Swiss]], [[Austrian Brazilian|Austrian]], [[Czech Brazilian|Czech]], and non-East Pomeranian-speaking German and Prussian heritage{{clarify|date=June 2017}} – that were much more numerous immigrants to both Brazilian regions (and whose language almost faded out in the latter, due to assimilation and internal migration){{clarify|date=June 2017}}, by themselves less numerous than the [[Italian Brazilian|Italian]] ones (with only Venetian communities in areas of highly Venetian presence conserving [[Talian dialect|Talian]], and other Italian languages and dialects fading out elsewhere).{{clarify|date=June 2017}}

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