Re: Volcae and Volsci

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: Volcae and Volsci



> Check up Afrikaans. It kept many irregular features and even
> introduced some new ones. I think a partly literate elite established
> a standard within various Germanic languages early on, which helped
> preserve some irregular features, playing the same role as the Dutch
> reformed church in the development of Afrikaans (preserving Dutch as a
> liturgical language).
> Torsten
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> What is the relevance of this as regards Germanic being originally
Creolized
> ?
>
> Arnaud
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>
Afrikaans is a creolized Dutch.
Torsten
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Afrikaans looks like a dialect of Dutch.
It never stopped to be spoken by a majority of people whose mother tongue
was a set of dialectal varieties of Dutch.
Where is the creolized feature ?

Quebec French is not a creolized French.

Arnaud

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