Pidgin · Southern Africa

Hottentot Dutch

Extinct

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Hottentot Dutch. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

FamilyPidgin
StatusExtinct
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3
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Spoken in South Africa

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Pidgin's family tree with Hottentot Dutch.

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Reference data for Hottentot Dutch from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)