Oorlams
Facts
- Language: Oorlams
- Alternate names:
- Language code: oor
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, Macro-Dutch, Middle-Modern Dutch, Modern Dutch, Global Dutch, Afrikaansic
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 32000
- Script:
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Introduction
Oorlams is an Afrikaans based creole language spoken in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia, by the Oorlam people.
Some scholars consider Afrikaans a creole language, so Oorlams would be a creolized creole language. Idependently of whether Afrikaans is to be regarded as a creole of Dutch or not, certain sectors of the non-white population speak a variety of Afrikaans called Oorlams, dialects which betray a greater number of creole features than standard Afrikaans.