Kitchen German
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 Namibia
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| speaker | 15,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) - | ( T ) - |
Kitchen German ( English Namibian Black German or NBG ) is a German-based, non- canonical contact language in Namibia (similar to Unserdeutsch in New Guinea ). Kitchen German is only used by around 15,000 mainly older Namibians and former employees of the former colonial rulers, from which the name “kitchen German” is derived. The speakers mostly speak either Afrikaans or Standard German (see also German language in Namibia ).
Examples:
- Long time not seen - Long time not seen
- What does a banana cost? - What does the banana cost?
- late o'clock - too late time
- Lord drives the hunt, not the house - The master goes hunting and is not at home
Kitchen German is often an incentive for young Namibians to learn German as a foreign language in order to understand their grandparents.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were efforts to develop an artificially simplified German for use in the colonies . This was propagated in 1916 by Emil Schwörer under the name Colonial German . In contrast, the concept of the imaginary as an international means of communication was the world German by Adalbert Baumann .
Web links
- Susanne Mühleisen: Emil Schwörer's Colonial German (1916). In: PhiN , 31/2005 - essay on Unserdeutsch and other varieties