Irish, and other minority languages

[Hax]

Yeah, like apartheid.

[Fragony]

Yeah, like apartheid.

That's not Dutch it's Afrikaner, it's older than Dutch actually.

[Hax]

Afrikaans is by all means a sort of koiné of 17th century Dutch dialects.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Afrikaans is by all means a sort of koiné of 17th century Dutch dialects.

Nope, Koinè has a very different genesis. Not entirely unlike how the "official" Dutch language was created by one dialect becoming dominant and absorbing some traits of the others (Saksisch and Brabants mainly).

Afrikaans is what happens when you dump a few 17th century Dutchmen, with a lot of English crew. And let it stew in the very peculiar social and historical dynamics of South Africa.

[Hax]

But you would be able to classify Afrikaans as a koiné: from what I understood, Afrikaans was formed as something of a common mixture of several Dutch dialects in that particular period of colonisation. Of course, later, English would have served as something of a superstrate, which would have influenced the language.