Oorlams Creole
Oorlans | |
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Native to | South Africa |
Native speakers | 32,000 (2006)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
oor |
Glottolog |
oorl1238 [2] |
Oorlams (also: Oorlands, Oorlans) is a dialect of Afrikaans spoken in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, by the Oorlam people.
It is considered to be either an Afrikaans-based creole language or a dialect of Afrikaans proper.
Oorlams has many elements from Khoi languages.
See also
References
- ↑ Oorlans at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oorlams". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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