The Amish People

The Amish people

The Amish people are people who come together to live a special kind of life,  they follow a traditional christian church derived from Swiss Germany.

They do farming, build their own roofs, make their own clothing, carpentry and more...

The Amish people leave in Pennsylvanya(America) in Lancaster County.

The Amish Lifestyle

The Amish lifestyle driven by 3 principles: simple living, plain dressing, and avoidance of modern technologies. 

Thes principles represent the Amish way of life.

Their occupations is farming, build their own homes and sew their own cloths. 

For transportation they use carriages and horses to move stuf and themselfs from place to place, and their religion is christian.

The Amish people chose to live that way because they love it

The amish eduication & language

Acorrding to the Amish customs children go to school until 8th grade and when they are finished with school they help their parents with the work. The language they speak and learn with is either English or German dilact.

The German dilact  is a German language that has been influenced by the English of surrounding populations.

The Amish Family life

In Pennsylvania, the Amish people have a really high birth rate (7-10 children in one family or even more) and that’s because they want a bigger community of the Amish.

When the children reach teenage years they decide if they want to stay among the Amish or get out to the real world.

In the Amish community, they give to the older family members more respect and more caring to them.

Popular Amish Names

Most common surnames: Stoltzfus, King, Beiler, and Lapp

Most common first names for men: John, Amos, Samuel, Daniel and David.

Most common first names for women: Mary, Rebeka, Sarah, Kaiti and Annie