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From: Wally & Elrine Greig <>
Subject: Re: DUTCH - High Dutch - Low Dutch ?
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:04:05


At 01:55 PM 9/1/97 -0700, kenneth joubert wrote:
>I have been helping a local (Canadian) researcher into South AFrica with
>doing some tracing of their tree. They have some brief "notes" or letters
>which were written in RSA possibly about 100 years ago. Although my
>Afrikaans is "not good", it was good enough to recognize that it was NOT
>Afrikaans - and thought it might be Low or high" dutch ? Could anyone
>decipher them for her ?

Hi! - While I lay no claims to the level of expert, I have an academic
background which includes a qualification in History of Afrikaans,
Afrikaans "Higher" ["pure" Afrikaans!!!], and a smattering of "High Dutch"
& "Kitchen Afrikaans"/"Low Dutch". If I can be of help, please let me know.
You can reach me at

Good luck anyway -
Kind regards
Elrine Greig

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