Kanak Sprak

Kanak Sprak is a German sociolect created by Turkish youth in Germany in the late 1980s.

The sociolect takes its name directly from the title of the book Kanak Sprak (1995) by German-Turkish author Feridun Zaimoğlu. Its name roughly means "Kanake-talk", referring to the word Kanake, which is used originally as a pejorative. The book deals with the idea of reclaiming this term for positive purposes. Other synonymous names for "Kanak Sprak" are "Ghettosprache", "Türkenslang", "Kiez-Deutsch", "Kiezdeutsch", "Türkendeutsch" and "Kanakisch".[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. Seyda Ozil, Michael Hofmann, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel: 50 Jahre türkische Arbeitsmigration in Deutschland (Türkisch-Deutsche Studien). V&R unipress 2011, S. 209 (Google books).
  2. Jannis Androutsopoulos: Ultra korregd Alder! Zur medialen Stilisierung und Popularisierung von "Türkendeutsch". Linguistik-Server Essen (LINSE), 2001. (PDF Archived 2014-12-09 at the Wayback Machine)
  3. Vom Türkendeutsch zu Kanakisch
  4. “Is voll krass eh” - Neue Trends in der Jugendsprache**** Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
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