--- "Brian M. Scott" <
BMScott@...> wrote:
> At 6:16:46 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Afrikaans is the mother tongue of a large black
> and
> > colored population.
>
> Obviously.
>
> > In that population it started as a pidgin.
>
> Evidence?
>
> Brian
>
As I see it, the creation of Afrikaans is analogous to
that of Gullah and later of AAVE. Gullah is considered
a creole, while AAVE is often seen as a creolized
version of English. I've read that AAVE is the result
of a diglossia where the basolect has gradually
withered away, yielding a vernacular ever closer to
the acrolect. Given that Dutch was the written
language in SA until somewhere between 1875-1925, it
would be plausible that something similar happened in
SA. There area a lot of questions to be answered that
seem to be beyond the scope of what's readily
available to us, especially regarding Afrikaans as
spoken by non-Whites, earlier forms of Afrikaans and
the Khoi-San contribution to Afrikaans. Looking at the
"I be, you be, he be" type of verb morphology,
Afrikaans does seem to be closer to either Gullah or a
basilectal form of AAVE.
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