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Afrikaans is not a "sort of a Dutch dialect". It is a separate language, derived from Dutch (note, there are difference Afrikaans dialects). http://en.wikipedi
by joubert 17y ago
Afrikaans is not a "sort of a Dutch dialect".
It is a separate language, derived from Dutch (note, there are difference Afrikaans dialects). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
Interesting write-up of what is considered a "dialect", and how it differs from "language": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect
- yannis 17y agoFrom a certain perspective no one speaks a "language," everyone speaks a dialect of a language. My mother language is Greek but I speak the Cypriot dialect. Mainland Greeks have great difficulty understanding Cypriots talking but not the other way round. This is very true of Afrikaans too. It is easier for an Afrikaner to understand Dutch but not the other way round. But you probably right I should have called it a language.
- joubert 17y agoRight, Cypriot Greek is a dialect, similarly the German dialects spoken in Austria. Afrikaans actually has an ISO-639 language code.
- gahahaha 17y agoIf you put a lot of emphasis on "sort of" it is.
- joubert 17y agoOnly if you have an imperialist/colonist slant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_dialects#Sister_and_daughter_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_dialects#Sister_and_daugh...