OT: German West African colony?

[Amy West]

On 4/28/12 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:09:08 -0400
> From:    Herb Stahlke<hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: OT: German West African colony?
>
> 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
Vielen dank! Ich habe das nicht gewusst!

(Think there's some value judgements inherent in the names of the creoles?)

---Amy West

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