1. A Texan of german ancestry dating back to the migration of Germans, Austrians, and Czechs into the Texas Hill Country in the 1820s-1840s.

2. A creole language or dialect of German spoken in Texas, particularly in the Texas Hill Country.

The dialect is a mixture of different dialects of European German, with some English, Spanish, and Czech words

However since World War 2, the creole language has been dying out, thanks to the government removing it from schools and as a recognized language