Unserdeutsch

Unserdeutsch
Rabaul Creole German
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
110, almost all in Australia (2016)[1]
German-based creole
Language codes
ISO 639-2crp
ISO 639-3uln
Glottologunse1236

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]

  1. ^ Unserdeutsch at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Strazny, Philipp, ed. (2013). Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Routledge. p. 803 – via ProQuest Ebook Central.
  3. ^ "Rabaul Creole German (Unserdeutsch)". University of Bern. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  4. ^ Another Germanic creole now official in Papua New Guinea, based on English which is also official
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Unserdeutsch". Special Broadcasting Service. 16 March 2016.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Maitz & Volker 2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).