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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Dutch-like language [OT]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 18:24:07 +0000
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legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:41:47 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
> >Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On a sunny day (Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:59:22 +0000) it happened
> >> liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
> >> <1r3zqks.1pae81f187shiuN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>:
> >> 
> >> >Last night in the 80-metre band I heard two 'hams' talking.  The vowel
> >> >sounds of their voices seemed to be characteristically Dutch (an accent
> >> >like the Groningen area) but the language was completely
> >> >incomprehensible.  I listened for several minutes but didn't hear a
> >> >single word I recognised
> >> >
> >> >Do any of our Dutch contributors know of some dialect that is Dutch in
> >> >sound but does not use the standard Dutch language?
> >> >
> >> >[I tried to send this to Jan by e-mail but the address I found for him
> >> >on the Web just bounced.]
> >> 
> >> There is the Frisian (Fries) language, spoken west of Groningen
> >>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language
> >> And Gronings
> >> And Drents:
> >
> >I have listened to the Wikipedia recordings of Fries and Gronings (there
> >doesn't seem to be one of Drents).  Fries doesn't seem to have the
> >frequency of typically Dutch pronunciation of the G and CH sounds that i
> >heard in the QSO.  Gronings had those sounds but many of the words are
> >just slightly eccented standard Dutch words which weren't in the QSO.
> >The mystery remains, so if I hear that language again, I shall have to
> >record it.
> >
> >
> >> Have not listened to 80 meter for a long time, much local noise here.
> >
> >It was like that here until I put a really good (3-wire inductive) mains
> >filter right against the input to the receiver and then solidly earthed
> >the receiver chassis with an independent earthing system of heavy wire
> >soldered to spaced earth rods, using a blowlamp.
> 
> Boer?

If you mean Afrikaans, I would probably have recognised that.


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