A skit in Old English

Fraconian was a language spoken in Northern German and what is now the Netherlands. It became Modern Dutch and Belgian Dutch, and one dialect of Dutch would become Afrikaans which is spoken in South Africa. Afrikaans became an official language in 1925.


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Steve the vagabond

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