Roushie Mennonite

The Russian Mennonites are a group o Mennonites descendit fraae Dutch an mainly Germanic Prussien Anabaptists who establisht colonies in Sooth Roushie (present-day Ukraine) beginnin in 1789. Since the late 19t century, mony o them hae come tae kintras throughoot the Wastren Hemisphere. The rest wur forcibly relocatit, so that few o their descendants nou live at the location o the original colonies. Roushie Mennonites are traditionally multilingual wi Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) as their lingua franca.