Unserdeutsch language

Spoken in

• Creole German - based Our German

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Crp

Uln

Our German (also Rabaul Creole German ) is the language of the minority of Rabaul Creole and a German - based Creole. Originally created during the colonial period in Papua New Guinea and to the north-east of Australia and west of New Britain (formerly New Britain ) distributed, Our German is now almost extinct, most of the less than 100 remaining speakers are elderly. A lot of the speakers left Papua New Guinea in the wake of independence from Australia.

All the speakers dominate alongside our German at least two other languages ​​fluently, either high German, English, Kuanua or Tok Pisin.

Formation

Our German originated around the year 1900 in today's provincial capital Kokopo, which was then called Herbert height and was the seat of the Governor of German New Guinea. In the suburbs there was the Catholic Sacred Heart Mission Vunapope, in the half-breed children European- Melanesian origin were taught in High German. Outside of teaching the children mixed the rudimentary learned German with the languages ​​of their parents. The result was a mixture consisting of German, English and Tok Pisin substantially.