interlingual congruence vs. divergencemodificationIn this discussion paper, a comparative overview of the behaviour of adjectives in Afrikaans and Dutch is given by utilising two descriptive categories identified by Broekhuis (2013), viz complementation and modification. While noticeable areas of overlap ...
>>I have spoken to some Belguins that said Dutch is too different, but I don't find that at all. To me Flemish sounds like Dutch with the exception of the pronounced '...en' at the end of the words and a with out a uviler 'r'. A dialect as you have written before. << Be...
A voiced velar fricative is original, probably for Germanic as a whole. It has been devoiced (along with all other voiced fricatives) in northern Dutch and in Afrikaans. The question for me is whether “hard g” is really supposed to mean [g], or rather the Spanish “/g/”, i.e. ...
Afrikaans is a daughter-language of Dutch, which informs about ninety percent of its vocabulary. However, many other languages helped shape Afrikaans! These include Malay and all of the African languages, as well as Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, and even Russian. With such a mixed pot,...
The article begins with the social history, religious legitimization and institutional promotion of the Dutch-based language of Afrikaans as a national and official language of apartheid South...