Unserdeutsch, also known as Rabaul Creole German, is the only known German-lexifier creole. This critically endangered language has its origins in an orphanage in German New Guinea for mixed-race children, where Standard German was taught by mission personnel. Unserdeutsch was creolised in one generation, and became the in-group language of a small mixed-race community. It is now spoken by around 100 elderly speakers, nearly all immigrants to Australia. The current project is only the second documentation based on actual fieldwork and has a specific focus on the use and vitality of the language as used by the last generation of speakers. It has the aim of producing an Unserdeutsch corpus that will facilitate both future linguistic research and contact with the language for the descendants of Unserdeutsch speakers. Preliminary findings show variation among speakers along a continuum from heavily creolised basilect to an almost European German acrolect. Most of the lexicon is derived from German, while a number of basilectal grammatical constructions are the result of the loss of marked features in German and possible imperfect second language learning as well as relexification of Tok Pisin, the presumed substrate language.

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记录Unserdeutsch

Unserdeutsch，也被称为Rabaul Creole德语，是唯一已知的德语词汇克里奥尔语。这种极度濒临灭绝的语言起源于德国新几内亚的一个针对混血儿的孤儿院，宣教人员在那里教了标准德语。Unserdeutsch一代人使用了克里奥尔语，成为了一个小型混合种族社区的团体语言。现在约有100位年长的演讲者讲这种话，几乎所有移民到澳大利亚。当前的项目只是基于实际田野调查的第二份文档，并且特别关注上一代演讲者使用的语言的使用和生命力。它的目的是产生一个Unserdeutsch语料库，该语料库将促进未来的语言研究以及与Unserdeutsch说话者后代的语言接触。初步发现显示，说话者之间的变化范围很大，从严重的波纹状断面到几乎是欧洲的德国变体。大部分词典都是从德语衍生而来的，而大量的文法语法结构是德语中失去明显特征，可能不完美的第二语言学习以及假定的母语托克皮辛语化的结果。