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    What is 'Kitchen Dutch'?

    Question #89400. Asked by author. (Dec 04 07 10:13 PM)


    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Keuken. And I will assume we get "Cook" from this or the like.

    Dec 04 07, 11:10 PM
    AyatollahK

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

    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 07, 11:26 PM
    Flem-ish

    		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.http://www.koxkollum.nl/potjeslatijn/potje003.htm
    Potjeslatijn

    Dec 05 07, 12:31 AM
    author

    		There was also another variant called "Küchendeutsch", used in Namibia.

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

    Dec 05 07, 9:14 AM
    author

    		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).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibian_Black_German

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





    Dec 05 07, 9:16 AM

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