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What is 'Kitchen Dutch'?

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"Kitchen Dutch" was the varient of Dutch spoken by servants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, which later morphed into Afrikaans.

link http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1351151

"The African and Asian slaves of course has to speak the master's tongue. Naturally they conversed in illiterate, simplified broken pidgin Dutch. Thus the language spoken in the kitchen among the servants and slaves: Kombuis-Hollands, Kitchen Dutch as opposed to Hoog Hollands: High Dutch."

Dec 04 2007, 11:26 PM
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This must be related to the term "keukenlatijn" in "regular Dutch". "Kitchen Latin" is bad Latin just as "potjeslatijn" which refers to the crude Latin used by pharmacists.link http://www.koxkollum.nl/potjeslatijn/potje003.htm
Potjeslatijn

Dec 05 2007, 12:31 AM
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There was also another variant called "Küchendeutsch", used in Namibia.

link http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache_in_Namibia

Dec 05 2007, 9:14 AM
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Namibian Black German (German: Küchendeutsch) is a pidgin language spoken in various parts of Namibia. It is a non-standardized variety. Namibian Black German is based on standard German.
Namibian Black German is in danger of extinction. It was spoken mostly by the Africans who served their colonial masters when Namibia was known as German South-West Africa. (Küchendeutsch means Kitchen-German).

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibian_Black_German

link http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Küchendeutsch




Dec 05 2007, 9:16 AM
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