"He had lost his mother tongue almost completely and acquired the mutilated Dutch of the colonists."
— Afrikaans

January 1, 1970

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Martin Lichtenstein in Reisen im südlichen Afrika II (1803–1806), p. 151, in reference to German botanist J. A. Auge who settled in the Cape and assumed the vernacular.