Contact languages as “endangered” languages

Garrett, Paul

doi:10.1075/jpcl.21.1.05gar

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“…What makes this study of language change and language characterisation particularly interesting is that such links had to be established twice, due to the move from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island, and that these processes of adaptation have been deposited twice in the grammar and lexicon of the languages of Pitcairn Island and Norfolk Island. This study is even more noteworthy because, as mentioned above, Norfolk has been recognised by UNESCO (2007) as an endangered language (see also Garrett 2006).…”

Section: Exiting Pitcairn and Norfolk: Future Considerations For Minomentioning

confidence: 70%

Minority Contact Languages, Small Islands, and Linguistic Ecology

Nash

2018

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

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Section: Exiting Pitcairn and Norfolk: Future Considerations For Minomentioning

confidence: 70%

Minority Contact Languages, Small Islands, and Linguistic Ecology

Nash

2018

The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

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“…Kiche Duits is a marginal language in the sense of Reinecke (1937), and today a dying contact variety (on contact languages and language endangerment, see Garrett 2006). 4 Speakers of Kiche Duits (often shortened to Duits) came from different language groups, primarily Otjiherero and Khoekhoe, and the majority were born in the 1920s and 1930s; the youngest speakers in the 1950s.…”

Section: Ich Bin Duitse Vrouw Alte Duitse Vrouwe Sei Viele Duitse Lmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This made the acquisition of German a necessity for their workers. Kiche Duits is a marginal language in the sense of Reinecke (1937), and today a dying contact variety (on contact languages and language endangerment, see Garrett 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

NamibianKiche Duits: The Making (and Decline) of a Neo-African Language

Deumert

2009

J Ger Ling

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This paper provides the first overview of the history, sociolinguistics, and structures of NamibianKiche Duits(lit. “kitchen German”), which is today a dying contact variety. The analysis draws on archival records, colonial publications, and memoirs, as well as over 120 sociolinguistic interviews conducted in 2000. Early varieties of NamibianKiche Duitsemerged from 1900 under German colonial rule. The language was used primarily for inter-ethnic communication within the work context. However, speakers also “crossed” playfully intoKiche Duitsin a number of within-group speech genres (competition games, scolding, banter, etc.), thus appropriating the colonial language—alongside cultural borrowings (Truppenspieler, “traditional” dress)—for new in-group practices. These within-group uses contributed to the linguistic stabilization of the language as well as the formation of new (post-)colonial (neo-African) identities.*

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“…The toponyms I discuss are from the language of Norfolk Island (South Pacific), officially written 'Norf'k' since 2004 after the establishment of the Norfolk Island Language (Norf'k) Act 2004 (Administration of Norfolk Island 2004). This is an endangered contact language (Garrett 2006, UNESCO 2007 I have worked on during several fieldwork stints over several years. I analyze the acceptability of variant placename forms given by native speakers of a select corpus of Norf'k toponyms, toponyms which are grammatically quite distinct from English toponyms.…”

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confidence: 99%