German-based creole languages
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A German creole, more properly a German-based creole language, is a creole language with a significant influence from the German language.
- Unserdeutsch - ("Our German"), or Rabaul Creole German, is a 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 exist today, 15 of whom live in New Britain.
- Namibian Black German or Küchendeutsch - a German creole formerly spoken in German South West Africa, now Namibia.
- Belgranodeutsch