Talk:Afrikaans (Northern Cape dialect)

Spelling of Oranjerivierafrikaans
According to the latest Afrikaans spelling rules, the correct spelling of the article's name would be "Oranjerivierafrikaans" (no hyphen). See AWS 2002 page 153, rule 14.14. -- leuce 10:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Differences
Do the examples of differences such as the plural and possessive replace the standard ways completely? 66.30.58.20 11:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey
'Kjerk' is very close to Norwegian dialect for 'church' (kjerke, kyrkja, etc), and 'gjeld' is Norwegian for 'debt'. Is this a coincidence or are there Nordic influences in this dialect of Afrikaans? --Joffeloff 19:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Possibly, but we won't put that in until we can find a source that says so.Cameron Nedland 02:52, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Upington area only?
Definitely NOT! Shoot me down for the sin of "Original Research" but the "Ma-goed" and "Gjeld" phenomenon is way more widely distibuted. I have lived in the South-eastern Upper Karoo (South of De Aar) all my life and those forms are extremely common here - I have alse heard them in the Kimberley area as well as in the Hantam. Either Orajerivierafrikaans and the Northern Cape dialect are one thing, or Oranjerivierafrikaans has a massively larger distibution than stated here. Roger (talk) 09:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)