IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sat Feb 26 00:21:56 UTC 2000


JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>>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;

Afrikaans has been described as a "creoloid".  There was a
"bottleneck", though not as narrow as with a real creole.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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