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To: MadIvan
Are Akfrikaners Dutch in origin?
48 posted on 11/24/2002 1:59:16 AM PST by patriciaruth
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To: patriciaruth
Primarily Dutch - but there are German and Huguenot elements in their background as well. Their language is mostly an archaic form of Dutch - a Dutch person once told me that Afrikaans sounds as odd to them as someone speaking Shakespearean English would sound to us.

Regards, Ivan

49 posted on 11/24/2002 2:03:39 AM PST by MadIvan
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