Talk:Steinbach, Manitoba
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Steinbach is a German Name and can be translated as Stonecreek ('Stein'=Stone + 'Bach'='Creek')
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- High German. Plattdeutsch is a dialect of High German spoken esp. by old people in sections of Northern Germany. Maybe "Steen" would be "Stein" in Plattdeutsch. 84.60.97.209 23:06, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Something about Steinbach, Manitoba
The Russian Mennonites speak Plautdietsch, a German dialect with plattdeutsche origin. I have a question: Is in Steinbach a Mennonite Church with worships? Are Russia-German people from Steinbach speaking Plautdietsch or nowadays English? Grüße von Simon Mayer.
- Most people in Steinbach speak English, but a large proportion - certainly a majority among the elderly and a large minority of the under-40s - can speak Plautdietsch. Those born in Canada since 1930 all speak fluent English, but some returnees from Paraguay speak only Plautdietsch fluently. Many also speak and read standard German. Ich kan allein ein Bisschen Deutsch noch sprechen. Ich las etwas besser. Meine Mutter komt von Steinbach und spricht noch fließend Plautdietsch, aber ich nicht.
- As for the Mennonite Church. Mennonites are still a large part of the population of Steinbach - I think a majority even now - and there are still many Mennonite churches in the city. When I was young, most of them had English worship services in the morning and German ones at night. But now there aren't so many people who still need the German, so it's been partially abandoned.
- Does that answer your question? --Diderot 20:57, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Ja, vielen Dank für Deine Antwort! Weißt Du vielleicht noch, wie viele Russlandmennoniten in ganz Kanada leben? Perhabs you can answer this, too: How many Russian Mennonites are living all over Canada now? Thank You. Gottes Segen und Frieden für Dich, SimonMayer.
- Maybe 150,000 when viewed as an ethnicity. But a lot of those 150,000 don't go to Mennonite churches - or necessarily any church at all - and may not think of themselves as Mennonite at all. I'm ethnically Mennonite, but I neither attend church nor speak the traditional language of the Russian Mennonites. As a religion, it's really hard to say. Mennonites proselytize - maybe half or more of the global Mennonite population is not ethnically Mennonite. Many religious Mennonites identify themselves as evangelicals but resist labeling themselves as Mennonite. As an identity, "Russian Mennonite" is dying off quickly. Every year fewer and fewer people see themselves in that label. --Diderot 18:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I have some experience with Seventh-Day-Adventists in Germany. In my next community (Adventgemeinde) there are a lot of Russian-Germans from Kazakhstan. Their ancastors were Mennonites. When some Russian-Mennonites immigrated to the U.S.A. they heard about the Adventmessage (Adventbotschaft) and they reported their relatives in Russia and they turned to the Seventh-Day-Adventism. Do you know if their descendants in America make uo own closed communities?
[edit] Pronunciation?
What's current pronunciation for Steinbach? German, english ? --Tigga en 06:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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