"Oumense het blotvoet gebruik": Nederlandse taalresten in de variëteiten van het Afrikaans

"Oumense het blotvoet gebruik": Dutch relics in the regional varieties of Afrikaans The Bureau of the WAT has developed a survey of all varieties of Afrikaans. One part thereof is the survey of Dutch language relics in the Afrikaans regional varieties which is discussed here. From earlier surveys it has been shown that many Dutch relics are present; the Dutch language and in particular the dialect from Holland from the 16th and 17th centuries have had a strong influence on (the origin of) Afrikaans. Questionnaires were used to check with 183 informants from the Northern and the Western Cape wh... Mehr ...