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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 285672, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, you&#039;re right.</p><p>To us Dutch, Afrikaans sounds very simplified, I think you can see that in the difference between the Afrikaans motto and the Dutch motto. The shilling shows a transitional Afrikaans, it still has the end t&#039;s on eendragt maakt magt.</p><p>We can understand each other, and although we do not have a language union with Afrikaans, Afrikaander poetry is read here as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting that you make the distinction of Surinam Dutch. To us that is &#039;proper&#039; Dutch, often spoken very beautifully. The only difference is the accent, there is no dialect like in Dutch and Belgian regions.</p><p>The official language of Surinam (government, etc) is Dutch, but Sranan Tongo, a creole language, is the pre-dominant first language. There are other languages as well.</p><p>Many Sranan words are now part of Dutch street language, just like Moroccan Berber words.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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