Category Archives: Afrikaans
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
