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Not quite that simple. Yes, SA English follows after certain features of Afrikaans, but some of those Afrikaans features were local innovations, not brought fro
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
Not quite that simple. Yes, SA English follows after certain features of Afrikaans, but some of those Afrikaans features were local innovations, not brought from the Netherlands (centralization of /i/ is one example).
- scoot 7y agoHence "influence".
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoMy point is that that influence is not necessarily Dutch if the features in question happened in Afrikaans only after its arrival on the Cape.