Oorlams Creole
| Oorlans | |
|---|---|
| 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 an Afrikaans-based creole language by some observers, whereas most Oorlammers themselves would describe their language as being 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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Oorlams". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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