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Where is Unserdeutsch spoken?

Unserdeutsch is an Indo-European language, spoken in Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Unserdeutsch is spoken

Unserdeutsch is spoken in 2 countries: Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Country
Australia
Papua New Guinea

Unserdeutsch has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Unserdeutsch?

Wikidata gives about 100 speakers (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2020). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Moribund. Glottolog lists it as moribund: the youngest speakers are middle-aged or older, and children are no longer learning it.

Where Unserdeutsch sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Unserdeutsch as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. High German
  7. Upper German
  8. Middle-Modern High German
  9. Modern High German
  10. Upper Franconian
  11. Global German
  12. Unserdeutsch

Related languages

Other languages in the Global German group:

  • German (76.5 million speakers)

More about Unserdeutsch

Codes: ISO 639-3 uln, Glottolog unse1236. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Unserdeutsch

Where is Unserdeutsch spoken?

Unserdeutsch is spoken in Australia and Papua New Guinea. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Unserdeutsch?

Wikidata gives about 100 speakers (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2020). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Unserdeutsch in?

Glottolog places Unserdeutsch in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Upper German, Middle-Modern High German, Modern High German, Upper Franconian and Global German.

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