What About Arranged Marriages?
Many people believe that Amish people meet their partners by way of arranged marriages, this is actually not true. First of all, in order to be able to marry, adults must be baptized. Of course, marrying someone outside of the community is not allowed. Amish people are actually allowed to choose who they want to marry, and courtship will typically involve a young man transporting a young woman he might be interested in to Sunday worships or singings and then back home.
What About Arranged Marriages
They Are Multilingual
Most of the people who follow Old Order Amish speak Pennsylvania Dutch. However, Dutch does not refer to the language spoken in the Netherlands, but is rather a form of the word Deitch, from Pennsylvania German. Members of the Pennsylvania Dutch continued to use this name to distinguish themselves from the German immigrants that came to the US in 1830. Almost all Amish are bilingual and can speak Pennsylvania Dutch as well as English.
They Are Multilingual