Good call! It's Afrikaans. Wikipedia says some interesting things about the language:
The South African poet writer Breyten Breytenbach, attempting to visualize the language distance to anglophones once remarked that the differences between (Standard) Dutch and Afrikaans are comparable to those between the Received Pronunciation and Southern American English.
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Modern Dutch and Afrikaans share over 90 per cent of their vocabulary. Afrikaans speakers are able to learn Dutch within a comparatively short time. Native Dutch speakers pick up written Afrikaans even more quickly, due to its simplified grammar, whereas understanding spoken Afrikaans might need more effort. Afrikaans speakers can learn Dutch pronunciation with little training. This has enabled Dutch and Belgian companies to outsource their call centre operations to South Africa.
Funnily enough, early this morning I had a commenter from South Africa (I think) on dreamwidth notice both the melktert and the "Voortrekker" in the photo, and comment. (http://randomness.dreamwidth.org/505167.html?thread=54607#cmt54607) He said his wife was bringing one home. I am envious. :)
In other detail about the photo, I noticed the classic Corning Ware Cornflower pattern on the pie plate. This made me happy. :)
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Date: 2015-02-27 07:27 pm (UTC)Good call! It's Afrikaans. Wikipedia says some interesting things about the language:Funnily enough, early this morning I had a commenter from South Africa (I think) on dreamwidth notice both the melktert and the "Voortrekker" in the photo, and comment. (http://randomness.dreamwidth.org/505167.html?thread=54607#cmt54607) He said his wife was bringing one home. I am envious. :)
In other detail about the photo, I noticed the classic Corning Ware Cornflower pattern on the pie plate. This made me happy. :)