Talk:Mohawk Dutch

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The Dutch-based creole spread through trade and political interface, not mixing (as was originally written), so I edited that to reflect both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.13.25.19 (talk) 15:58, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Extinction date
Is there a reliable source that states that Mohawk Dutch died out before the end of the 17th century? This edit added "disappeared before the end of the 17th century" to the original "mainly spoken during the 17th century" without a source. A quick search finds a 1996 source that states that Mohawk Dutch survived until the early 20th century. Meters (talk) 22:22, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * There are records of church services in the Mohawk Valley still being given in Dutch (as well as German and English) into the 19th century, long after the Dutch had ceded their territorial claims. I don't know if those references are to Dutch or Mohawk Dutch, but clearly some form of Dutch was still in use generations after the end of the 17th century. Meters (talk) 22:43, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * And there is this recording from the DARE project  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:103:3320:2106:C4F:D24E:CE69 (talk) 06:08, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 * First mention of Mohawk Dutch can be traced to 1936 by Lawrence Gwyn Van Loon, a forger who had a lifelong obsession with Dutch History in the state of New York. Tomaatje12 (talk) 20:57, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Van Loon was a forger
Lawrence Gwyn Van Loon who published a 1938 introduction on the Mohawk Dutch language is a forger. Van Loon claimed to be "the last speaker of old dutch". This creole language might not be real. Tomaatje12 (talk) 17:55, 14 January 2023 (UTC)