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and have quickly taken up the limited housing. Consequently, the rent rapidly increased, driving a lot of the local youngsters out to live in major cities in mainland
Germany. Both the influx of English-speaking or German-speaking tourists and tourism employees and the loss of young native speakers
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dialects, it is part of the insular group of North
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Personal names on Amrum are still greatly influenced by
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means "of Peter". This practice was eventually prohibited by the Danish Crown in 1828.
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