Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> 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.

Tell it to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dutch-based_pidgins_and_creoles

I think linguistics needs a category of 'partially preserved,
partially creolized languages' and after I place Afrikaans there, I'd
place all the central Germanic languages.


Torsten