Oorlams Creole

Oorlans
Native to South Africa
Native speakers
 32,000 (2006)[1]
Afrikaans creole?
  • Oorlans
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

  1. ↑ Oorlans at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Oorlams". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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