Talk:List of Germanic languages

message: This should be a redirect to Germanic language.  That article already fully covers the subject.  Enhance that article if needed rather adding YARA (yet another redundant article). - Kbh3rd 02:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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message: Haltsnovian language is orphaned. Should it link here somehow? kwami (talk) 07:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
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message: The statement that Afrikaans had "a significant influx of vocabulary from other languages" is not only largely debatable, but it maybe even reeks of politics, which many of us Afrikaans speakers feel should have no place in the field of linguistics whatsoever. One does not even know why Afrikaans should have received this lable on its own, while other Germanic languages had an even greater "influx from other languages" (e.g. mixing up words of Germanic and Latin origins to an overwhelming degree, as was done in English).  In reality, there are only a small handful of words from Asian and African origins in everyday standard Afrikaans, and even a word such as "baie" (meaning many) which was always thought to have come from "the East", now appears to have had its origin squarely in Lower Saxony, Germany. The drawing up of word lists to show that Afrikaans' origins were creole, serves no moral purpose. If it were true, I myself would have embraced the notion as part of our shared history, but one cannot be "politically correct" and override historic fact. That was done all too many times in our turbulent past. It simply cannot be allowed to be done again, with the scale now only tipped to "the other side". Mieliestronk (talk) 07:57, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afrikaans: where is this "significant influx of words from other languages"?