Re: Volcae and Volsci

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

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> At 6:16:46 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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> [...]
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> > Afrikaans is the mother tongue of a large black and
> > colored population.
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> Obviously.

Oh, so now it's obvious.

> > In that population it started as a pidgin.
>
> Evidence?

It started in that population as any other African European-language
based pidgin. There is a lot of literature on the subject. I can't
give you any specific reference, I forgot myself where I read it years
back.


Torsten