LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.01.14 (01) [A/E]

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L O W L A N D S - L  -  14 January 2008 - Volume 01
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.01.12 (05) [A/E]

From: Maria Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: ? Language origins ?

"Heinz Kloss observed in 1977: 'Unless we consider Arabic an African tongue
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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2008.01.13 (03) [E]

 En Engels het 'n oorsprong in Oud Angeln aan die Noordwes kus van die
vasteland Europa. Dit maak nie van Engels 'n indringertaal in die Verenigde
Koninkryk nie.

I would have thought that N. African Arabic, certainly from the Magreb
(Algeria, Morocco etc) is as African as Afrikaans.  From what I was told, it
differs from Classical Arabic at least as much as Afrikaans does from
Netherlands.

The question of "indigenous" status is a bit of a thorny one isn't it? Is
English a "native American" language? it's been there at least as long as
Afrikaans in Africa.  Spanish even longer, and in the latter case S.
American Spanish or Castillano is quite distinct from the Iberian version.
If it comes to that Apache is almost as far from its Alaskan homeland as New
Hampshire English!

Paul Finlow-Bates

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