Afrikaans Pronunciation
Harold Koopowitz (Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:17:57 PST)
The problem is that Afrikaans was derived from Netherlands but over
the centuries Dutch evolved and changed the sound of its vowels while
Afrikaans kept the old way of pronunciation. Today Afrikaans is more
similar to modern Flemish which also retained the old vowel sounds.
Harold
At 07:24 AM 11/26/2011, you wrote:
This is really scurrilous, but I was told by a Dutch friend who emigrated
to South Africa that the local language was like a cross between that spoken
by a docker and a kindergarten child.
Paul
Kent
UK
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