[gothic-l] Re: Germanic mutual intelligibility

[Niels Winther]

Sollers wrote:

> ... these features ... are characteristic of pidgins -
> some writers think of all pidgins, but I am not convinced
> that they apply where neither component language is
> Indo-European; for example, I don't think they apply in
> Swahili.

I think it would be wrong to say, that Kiswahili is a pidgin
or creole. It is a Bantu-language with a typical Bantu grammar.
There are many loanwords, but the core is clean Bantu.

rgds
niels



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