Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Namibia is a multilingual country whereby German is recognized national language (a form of minority language) and serves as a lingua franca along with Afrikaans, English, Ovambo and Herero. While English is the sole official language of the country, in many areas of the country German enjoys some official status at a community level.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. German is the main or mother tongue of about 30,000 Namibians, a number composed roughly equally of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Namibians who as children grew up in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). 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 second (third etc.) language. German benefits from its similarity to Afrikaans and has a prominent position in the tourism and business sectors. Many Namibian natural features, place and street names have German names. Some experts see the future of German in Namibia as threatened.. }
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- German_language_in_Namibia abstract "Namibia is a multilingual country whereby German is recognized national language (a form of minority language) and serves as a lingua franca along with Afrikaans, English, Ovambo and Herero. While English is the sole official language of the country, in many areas of the country German enjoys some official status at a community level.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. German is the main or mother tongue of about 30,000 Namibians, a number composed roughly equally of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Namibians who as children grew up in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). 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 second (third etc.) language. German benefits from its similarity to Afrikaans and has a prominent position in the tourism and business sectors. Many Namibian natural features, place and street names have German names. Some experts see the future of German in Namibia as threatened.".