From: Rick McCallister
Message: 56992
Date: 2008-04-07
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dutch-based_pidgins_and_creoles
> <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
>
>Before Brian skins you alive, elaborate on why you
> 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
>