OT: German West African colony?

[Herb Stahlke]

And of linguistic interest, there were also some German based creoles,
including Kuechendeutsch in Namibia and Unterdeutsch in Papua New
Guinea.  I heard anecdotally of a pidgin German in Cameroun, but I've
seen nothing written on it.   I understand the Keuchendeutsch is still
in use but Unterdeutsch is nearly extinct.

Herb

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 4/27/2012 12:54 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>>Germany had two protectorates, Togoland and Camerun, both of which were
>>split into British and French zones during and after WWI. Neither territory
>>has any direct correspondence with current national borders.
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> Thanks, that sounds right assuming they together were larger than any
> present country.
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>>On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> > At 4/27/2012 11:19 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>> > >And in West Africa, a colony that that I'm
>> > > > incapable of identifying with present-day countries without
>> > > > overlaying two maps.  [Wikipedia: German colonial empire.]
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>> > >That's Togo (formerly Togoland), I think.
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>> > >--bgz
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>> > If you compare the Wikipedia map for German Colonial Empire with a
>> > Google map for Togo, they don't seem to be in the same place -- the
>> > German colony rising from the N-S coast, Togo on the E-W coast.  And
>> > Togo is too small.
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