IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>edsel at glo.be writes:

>this can happen without the intermediate stage of a pidgin: Afrikaans is a
>typical example of that.

-- Afrikaans is not a creole; it's transparently a Germanic language and
transparently descended from 17th-century Netherlandish.  Certainly there's
been a morphological simplification, but only slightly more so than in
English.

In fact, Afrikaans is to Dutch very much as English is to Old English -- many
of the same developments.

>including the disappearance of the participial prefix ge- that existed in Old
>English.

-- however, Frisian shares many features with English, and never had the sort
of Romance superstrate experience that English did.