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humanodon  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Personal projects and research

Ah my mistake, I apologize!

I understand that Afrikaans is different from Dutch, but not exactly how. I have a few friends from SA who liked Indonesia for ease of travel, because many signs in Indonesia were in both Bahasa Indonesia and Dutch.

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DWol  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's pretty much a dialect that got lost. There's a high level of inter-understandability, but there are some differences, most notably the double negative and the lack of verb conjugation (I is, we is, they is).