| Unserdeutsch | |
|---|---|
| Rabaul Creole German | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 110, almost all in Australia (2016)[1] |
German-based creole | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | crp |
| ISO 639-3 | uln |
| Glottolog | unse1236 |
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Unserdeutsch ('Our German'), or Rabaul Creole German, is a German-based creole language that originated in Papua New Guinea as a lingua franca.[2][3] The substrate language is assumed to be Tok Pisin,[4] while the majority of the lexicon is from German.[5][6][7]
- ^ Unserdeutsch at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Strazny, Philipp, ed. (2013). Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Routledge. p. 803 – via ProQuest Ebook Central.
- ^ "Rabaul Creole German (Unserdeutsch)". University of Bern. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Another Germanic creole now official in Papua New Guinea, based on English which is also official
- ^ Maitz, Péter; Volker, Craig Alan (2017). "Documenting Unserdeutsch: Reversing Colonial Amneasia" (PDF). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 32 (2): 365–397. doi:10.1075/jpcl.32.2.06mai.
- ^ "Unserdeutsch". Special Broadcasting Service. 16 March 2016.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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