> > 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
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
They don't even mention the word "creole".
Afrikaans is basically an evolved geo-socio-lect of Dutch
in the African context of mixed populations of natives and immigrants.
Arnaud
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