Germanic languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Black Namibians who...
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Namibia was administered by South Africa, Afrikaans, German, and English enjoyed an equal status as official languages. Upon Namibian independence in...
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German Namibians (German: Deutschnamibier) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia. In 1883...
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Namibian Black German, also NBG, (German: Küchendeutsch, "kitchen German") is a pidgin language of Namibia that derives from standard German. It is nearly...
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German (German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe...
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Namibia (/nəˈmɪbiə/ , /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares...
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the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries...
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Herero and Nama genocide (redirect from German genocide in Namibia)
(Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire. It was the first genocide to begin in the 20th century, occurring...
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of the German language, regardless of the legislative status within the countries where it is spoken. In addition to the Germanosphere (German: Deutscher...
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White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia. The majority of White Namibians are...
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dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Together with the...
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back to the German settlers who colonised Namibia prior to the British confiscation of German lands after World War I, and they maintain German cultural...
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German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the...
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50 TV sets and 137 radio sets in Namibia in 2008. Radio stations: State-run radio service broadcasts in multiple languages; about a dozen private radio...
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in Namibia, with the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation operating a German-language radio station and broadcasting television news bulletins in German...
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in diasporas in Romania, Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Namibia. High German is marked by the High German consonant...
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minorities and nomadic San. German colonisation left its own imprint on Namibia, with German being a widely spoken language today and German architecture and cuisine...
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Ovambo (English: /ɒˈvæmboʊ/) language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards...
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Swakopmund (redirect from Swakopmund, Namibia)
centre in Namibia. Swakopmund is a popular beach resort and characterized by 19th century German colonial architecture. The city was founded in 1892 as...
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Namlish (redirect from Namibian English)
words Namibian and English) is a form of English spoken in Namibia. The term was first recorded in 1991. English is the country's official language since...
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Children of Namibia German Academic Exchange Service German language in Namibia Germany–Namibia relations Germany–Rwanda relations Germany–Tanzania relations...
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literally in English 'General Newspaper') founded in 1916, is the oldest daily newspaper in Namibia and the only German-language daily in Africa to survive...
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populations learned Bantu languages, such as Tswana. Khwe is learned locally as a second language in Namibia, but the language is being lost in Botswana as speakers...
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publishes three major Namibian newspapers, the Afrikaans-language Republikein, the German Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Namibian Sun in English. It also runs...
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century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa. After the First World War, the League...
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Herero people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
987 Namibians identified as Ovaherero in the 2023 census. They speak Otjiherero, a Bantu language. Though the Herero primarily reside in Namibia, there...
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newspaper in Namibia was the German-language Windhuker Anzeiger, founded 1898 by attorney George Wasserfall. It mainly reported on movements of the German imperial...
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Low Franconian (redirect from Lower Franconian language)
in the Nord department of France, in western Germany (Lower Rhine), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia. Low Franconian is a purely linguistic...
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Khoekhoe language. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Rehoboth is a town in central Namibia just north...
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regional status in Italy, Poland, Namibia and Denmark. German also continues to be spoken as a minority language by immigrant communities in North America...
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