Re: OT: Afrikaans

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>
> >No, [g] is /x/ in Afrikaans (as is [ch]).
>
> Really? My South-African colleagues definitely
> pronounced [g].
>
Well, the Afrikaaners I knew back in America certainly
had /x/ as the pronunciation for [g].

> Here again, my experience with my South-African
> colleagues tells something
> completely different. Would Afrikaans have dialects?
>
Well, it's been spoken in SA for quite some time and
over a sizeable region.  Plenty long enough for
dialectalization, I'd think.  Whether there *are*
dialects or not, I do not know, but I certainly
wouldn't be surprised.

ADam