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Key facts

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Amish

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Lancaster County Amish 03.jpg

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An Amish family riding in a traditional Amish buggy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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411,000(2025, Old Order Amish)

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United States (large populations in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania; notable populations in Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, New York, and Wisconsin; small populations in various other states)Canada (mainly in Ontario)

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Jakob Ammann

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Anabaptist

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The Bible

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EnglishPennsylvania DutchSwiss German

via Wikipedia infobox

• The Amish health culture and culturally sensitive health services: An exhaustive narrative review.ReviewSocial science & medicine (1982) · 2020Anderson C, Potts LDOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113466
• Caring for the Amish: What Every Anesthesiologist Should Know.ReviewAnesthesia and analgesia · 2017Weller GERDOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001808
• From Amish farm dust to bacterial lysates: The long and winding road to protection from allergic disease.ReviewSeminars in immunology · 2023Vercelli DDOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2023.101779
• Physical health conditions of the Amish and intervening social mechanisms: an exhaustive narrative review.ReviewEthnicity & health · 2022Anderson C, Potts LDOI: 10.1080/13557858.2021.1968351
• GM3 synthase deficiency in non-Amish patients.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2022Heide S, Jacquemont ML, Cheillan D et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.10.007
• Breast Cancer Knowledge Among Amish and Mennonite Women.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2024Thomas MK, Gilligan A, Lawson J et al.DOI: 10.1007/s13187-024-02452-7
• Amish revisited: next-generation sequencing studies of psychiatric disorders among the Plain people.ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG · 2013Hou L, Faraci G, Chen DT et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.01.007
• Alzheimer's disease plasma biomarkers in the Midwestern Amish.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Wang P, Song YE, Lynn A et al.DOI: 10.1002/alz.70328

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

ethnoreligious group

Subclass of

Germans

Named after

Jakob Ammann

Languages spoken

American Sign Language

Native language

Pennsylvania German

Religion

Anabaptism

Country

Argentina

Population

5000

Founded by

Jakob Ammann

Image

A group of Amish and Mennonite residents wave to President George W. Bush in Lancaster.jpg

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