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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.
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