Re: Afrikaans (was: Re: Columbian Danish (was: political Zera))
From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 18:45 |
At 11:38 12.4.2000 -0500, Matt Pearson wrote:
>. So, depending on how you look at it, Afrikaans
>is either a Dutch-based creole heavily influenced by colonial dialects of
>Dutch, or a descendant of colonial dialects of Dutch which has been heavily
>creolised.
A politically charged question too!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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