Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 2:29:36 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, Rick
> McCallister
> > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > So there is creolization at work.
> >
> > There are evident contact effects. Creolization,
> however,
> > is the process that turns a pidgin into a creole,
> and
> > Afrikaans has no pidgin in its history back to
> PIE.
>
> Afrikaans is the mother tongue of a large black and
> colored
> population. In that population it started as a
> pidgin. Brian is now
> going to pronounce that he knew that already.
>

I'm wondering if Afrikaans is the same among the
Tswana and Coloured people who speak it. I used to
work with a Tswana who was form Johannesburg. He told
me Afrikaans was his first language and he had to
learn Tswana from his grandparents, that most of the
Black population of the Rand cities spoke Afrikaans.
But it would be interesting to know if it's really
Afrikaans for a pidgenized form.



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