DutchAfrikaans
DutchAfrikaans is a term used in historical and contact linguistics to describe a hypothetical continuum or hybrid variety that links Dutch and Afrikaans. It reflects their common origin in 17th-century Dutch dialects and the later development of Afrikaans in southern Africa, shaped by contact with a range of languages, including Malay, Portuguese, and local Bantu and Khoisan languages.
The term is not an officially recognized language. There is no standardized lect called DutchAfrikaans, and
Linguistic descriptions of DutchAfrikaans are hypothetical and focus on imagined features that might arise from prolonged
Orthography uses the Latin script, and there is no separate DutchAfrikaans standard. In practice, writing would
In sociolinguistics, the notion of DutchAfrikaans highlights questions of language identity, classification, and politics of labeling