Colonial German

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Colonial German
Project author Emil Schwörer
Year of publication 1916
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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art (other planned languages)

Colonial German is one of the colonial officials Emil Schwörer published in 1916 constructed language .

Characteristic

Schwörer designed this pidgin for communication in German South West Africa and published a 62-page brochure with the title "Proposals for a future German colonial language in systematic grammatical presentation and justification". Schwörer processed knowledge about pidgin English as well as about the Bantu languages ​​and Swahili . Its colonial language was a simplified version of German that was influenced by the African contact languages. The vocabulary was limited to about 500 expressions. His suggestions were never put into practice.

See also

literature

  • Matthias Perl: Colonial German as restructured German. In: Birgit Igla and Thomas Stolz (eds.): What else I wanted to say ... A multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzky on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, 237–247.
  • Susanne Mühleisen: Emil Schwörer's Colonial German (1916). Linguistic and historical notes on a "planned pidgin" in colonial German Southwest Africa. PhiN (Philologie im Netz) 31/2005: 30, to be reached at: Freie Universität Berlin
  • Emil Schwörer: Colonial German. Proposals for a future German colonial language in a systematic-grammatical presentation and justification. See also here .
  • Andrea Stiberc: Sauerkraut, Weltschmerz, Kindergarten and Co. German words in the world. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-451-04701-2 . (In the chapter "Language Influences through Colonies and Mission", pp. 121–135, Stiberc also deals with colonial German.)
  • Peter Mühlhäusler: Tracing the roots of pidgin German. In: Language and Communication 4, 1984, 1, ISSN  0271-5309 , pp. 27-57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stiberc 1999, p. 128.

Web links

Wiktionary: Colonial German  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations