Eastern Carolina Germanic
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| Eastern Carolina Germanic | |
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| Ossaarn Karaulina Daarmanik | |
| Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|ˈistərn ˌkɛrəˈlaɪnə ʤərˈmænɪk ]] |
| Created by | Christian Newton |
| Native to | North Carolina |
| Native speakers | 1 (2020) |
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Old Order Carolinians |
Eastern Carolina Germanic is a dialect of American English spoken in very limited communities of the South Atlantic United States;particularly, several small island and coastal townships in the rural North Carolina "Down East" that encompasses the Outer Banks and Pamlico Sound.
History
Mythical History
German settlers first came to what is now North Carolina as part of the second expedition sent to the Roanoke area by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. The largest influx of German people to North Carolina, however, occurred in the eighteenth century, beginning with a joint effort between a Swiss land company and the British Crown to settle 100 families of German Palatines in the town of New Bern on the Neuse and Trent Rivers in 1710. The colony flourished and prospered for 18 months, but in 1711 the colony was virtually destroyed after suffering an attack by Tuscarora Indians. However, those settlers who did not migrate west remained on the various barrier islands known as the Outer Banks, and more particularly, Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke. With the mixture of British and German