German language in Namibia
Namibia is a multilingual country in which German is recognised as a national language. It is the only African nation to do so. While English has been the sole official language of the country since 1990, in many areas of the country, German enjoys official status at a community level. A national variety of German is also known as Namdeutsch. German is especially widely used in central and southern Namibia and was until 1990 one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of German Namibians as well as Black Namibians raised in East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) during the last decades of the Cold War. Namibian Black German is a pidgin variety of Namibian German that is reported as nearly extinct as of 2017. The German Namibian newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung on its website refers to 22,000 native speakers and of several hundred thousand who know German as a...
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