ABSTRACT

Christo van Rensburg is a leading academic in the field of the Afrikaans language and its origins. Having presented on the subject at the Rethinking Khoe and San Indigeneity, Language and Culture in the Transformation of School and Tertiary Education in South Africa seminar at the University of Johannesburg in 2018, van Rensburg had intended to submit an article for this special edition for Critical Arts. Due to his untimely death shortly after the seminar this was not possible. The editors thus decided to reprint the first chapter of his book Finding Afrikaans, published by Lapa in 2018 (ISBN 978-0-7993-8477-2), and financially supported by the Afrikaanse Taalraad. As the chapter has been published in this edition in isolation, outside of the book's framework, it has been amended by Julie Grant to include additional references and relevant contextual information. Although, the book is less formal in style than a standard academic text, the research and findings are robust. The book's informal style, and the fact that it is published in English and Afrikaans makes it extremely accessible, particularly to our Khoi and San colleagues. The chapter below provides an alternative version of the emergence of Afrikaans and lays the foundation for the academic study in this issue by Hans du Plessis and Julie Grant, which arose following the presentation by du Plessis entitled Afrikaans on the Frontier: Two Early Afrikaans Dialects which was twinned with van Rensburg's presentation at the symposium.

摘要

Christo van Rensburg是南非荷兰语及其起源领域的领先学者。在2018年于约翰内斯堡大学举行的南非重新思考Khoe与San土著人，语言和文化在学校和高等教育转型中的研讨会上对该主题作了介绍之后，van Rensburg打算为《Critical》的这一特别版提交一篇文章艺术。由于他在研讨会之后不久去世，所以这是不可能的。因此，编辑们决定重印他的《寻找南非荷兰语》一书的第一章，由Lapa在2018年出版（ISBN 978-0-7993-8477-2），并由Afrikaanse Taalraad资助。由于本章已在本书的框架之外单独发行，因此已由朱莉·格兰特（Julie Grant）进行了修订，以包括其他参考资料和相关的上下文信息。尽管该书的风格不如标准学术书本那么正式，但研究和发现是可靠的。这本书的非正式风格，以及以英语和南非荷兰语出版的事实，使得该书极为易读，尤其是对我们的Khoi和San同事而言。下面的章节提供了南非荷兰语出现的替代版本，并为Hans du Plessis和Julie Grant在本期进行的学术研究奠定了基础，这些研究是在du Plessis的题为边境上的南非荷兰语：两种早期南非荷兰语方言，与范·伦斯堡在座谈会上的演讲结对。