Re[2]: [tied] Re: Volcae and Volsci

At 5:21:12 PM on Sunday, April 6, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

[...]

>> Afrikaans is a creolized Dutch.

> Afrikaans looks like a dialect of Dutch.

That might be a little bit too strong, but it certainly is
descended from 17th century Dutch.

> It never stopped to be spoken by a majority of people
> whose mother tongue was a set of dialectal varieties of
> Dutch.

Exactly. Since it was extraterritorial, it was subject to
contact influences different from those of the (European)
Dutch dialects, but 'creolized Dutch' is a gross
exaggeration.

Brian