Category Archives: Dutch
Check Out Moselle Franconian
This is one Hell of a bizarre sounding language. I guess it sounds more like French than anything else, but it doesn’t sound much like French either! It doesn’t sound like much of anything! Truth is, they are actually speaking … Continue reading
The Northern Germanic Languages
A friend of mine has a post up at his site referring to an earlier post of mine, Scientific Studies of Intelligibility in Scandinavian Languages. North Germanic has been traditionally divided by East Norse (Swedish, Scanian, Danish, etc.) and West … Continue reading
Filed under Danish, Dialectology, Dutch, English language, German, Germanic, Icelandic, Indo-European, Language Families, Linguistics, Norwegian, Swedish
Afrikaans and English Redux
A friend of mine who runs a site on Germanic culture and linguistics links to an old article of mine, Is Afrikaans Close to English?. He adds at the end a several paragraph explanation of the question and possible answers … Continue reading
Filed under Afrikaans, Descriptive, Dutch, English language, Germanic, Indo-European, Language Families, Linguistics
Is Afrikaans Close to English?
Cruising around the Net researching my piece on the Dutch languages, I read up on Afrikaans quite a bit. Afrikaans is the language, very close to Dutch, spoken in South Africa. It seems to be a Dutch dialect from a … Continue reading
Filed under Africa, African, Afrikaans, Anti-Racism, Blacks, Cultural Marxists, Descriptive, Dutch, Europeans, Germanic, History, Indo-European, Language Families, Modern, Race/Ethnicity, Racism, Regional, Scum, South Africa, Whites
Yet Another Scandinavian Intelligibility Study
We’ve reviewed several of these studies before, and this subject seems to send a lot of Scandinavians up the wall for some reason. Especially Swedes are quite insistent that Swedish and Norwegian are a single language. They get pretty furious … Continue reading
Filed under Afrikaans, Danish, Dialectology, Dutch, Frisian, Germanic, Language Families, Linguistics, Norwegian, Sociolinguistics, Swedish, West Frisian
A Reclassification of the Dutch Language
Warning! This post is quite long – it runs to 123 pages. Where the Dutch language begins and where it ends is an important question. Ethnologue splits Low Franconian-Low Saxon (whatever that is) into 15 languages – Flemish, Dutch, Zeelandic, … Continue reading
Filed under Afrikaans, Belgium, Dialectology, Dutch, Europe, France, Frisian, German, Germanic, Germany, Gronings, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Language Classification, Linguistics, Low German, Mennonite, Netherlands, Regional, West Frisian
More On The Hardest Languages To Learn – Indo-European Languages
Note: Bizarrely enough, the PC headcases have accused this post, a Linguistics post of all things, of racism. See here for my position statement on racism. Caution: This post is very long! It runs to 88 pages on the Web. … Continue reading
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North Sea Fisherman Patois
Interesting quote from the Free Republic: I used to work with a Dutch guy who said that he was at some sort of North Sea confab, and when people spoke in their national languages they couldn’t understand one another but … Continue reading
