Unserdeutsch
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Unserdeutsch
- Alternate names: Rabaul Creole German
- Language code: uln
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Upper German, Middle-Modern High German, Modern High German, Upper Franconian, Global German
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 115
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
A view from Rabaul around 1900.
Unserdeutsch ("Our German"), or Rabaul Creole German, is a German-based Creole language spoken primarily in Papua New Guinea and the northeast of Australia. It was formed among the New Guinean children residing in a German-run orphanage. Fewer than 100 native speakers survive today, 15 of whom live in New Britain.
The verb
bin 'to be'
| Present | |
|---|---|
| i | bin |
| du | bis |
| er | is |
| wir | bis |
| ihr | seid |
| ? | sind |
Past
| All persons | war |