Plautdietsch in Russia

• Whatever the source of this variation, Plautdietsch not only survived, but thrived in Russia as the language of Mennonite homes and communities

• • This time period also represents Mennonites’ first sustained contact with Russian and Ukrainian
  • Can tell something about their interactions with these peoples from early borrowings from their languages into Plautdietsch, still found in Plautdietsch today: