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TIL about Unserdeutsch (“Our German”) — the world’s last surviving German colonial-era creole. It developed in German New Guinea as a mix of Standard German, English, and New Guinea Pidgin, and today only around 100 speakers remain in Australia and 10 in Papua New Guinea.

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